Note 301 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature (continued 2)

Now you haul on the line, and the crocodile comes up to the top with a rush, and the fun begins. As he comes up to the surface you ask him, “Was it you who caught So-and-so?”301 And if he wishes to reply in the affirmative he will bellow loudly. When he does so, say, “Wind yourself up” (”lilit”), and he will wind the line round his muzzle. And when you want to kill him, chop across the root of his tail with a cutlass; this will kill him at once.