Note 11 — Chapter X · WITCHCRAFT.
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The following rural rites are intended to ensure sunshine and to check excessive rain. A man born in the month of Fálgun (March) is requested to collect rain water in the leaf of the Alu plant, and the leaf is then tied to a stick and kept on the roof of a house. Burning coals are also thrown into rainwater after passing them between the legs of a person born in the month of Fálgun.11