Note 49 — Chapter VIII · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
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On the marriage day, after the ceremony of propitiating the nine planets has been performed in the bride’s house, in some castes three, and in others one sambelu, is kept near the spot where the planets are worshipped. Next, five unwidowed women of the family hold the sambelus and thrash them five or seven times on the floor repeating the words “On the chest of the ill-wisher of the host.” The sambelus are bound together by a thread.49