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Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan

Note 39 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.

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A sacred circle is frequently used as a protection from spirits. The sorcerer draws a circle on the ground, with his stick, and the following articles are put inside it. Cocoanuts, lemons, red lead, and a Kohala gourd. Fowls are also sacrificed to this circle. The filling in of this circle is called mánda bharane by the exorcists.39

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