Note 9 — Chapter X · WITCHCRAFT.
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In the Konkan districts the village deity is invoked to protect the cattle. People offer fowls and cocoanuts in the annual fair of a village deity, and request her to protect their cattle and crops. They have to offer a goat or buffalo to the deity every third year, and to hold annual fairs in her honour. The procession of bali is one of the measures adopted for averting cattle diseases.9