Note 218 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature (continued 2)

I was told by the Pawang that when the three reapers had each filled her basket, each of them tied the leaves of the rice clumps together, and dug up a lump of earth with the great toe of the left foot, and inserting the lump into the midst of each clump, repeated the following words:—