Note 77 — Chapter II · Man and his Place in the Universe

The “lump of earth from the victim’s footprint” used in one form of the soul-abduction ceremony77 is to be wrapped up in three thicknesses of cloth, which must be red, black, and yellow respectively, the yellow being outside. Again (in the ceremony of casting out “the mischief” from a sick man), a white cosmetic is assigned for use in the morning, a red cosmetic for mid-day, and black for sundown.78