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578 DIVINATION AND THE BLACK ART CHAP.
another form of soul-abduction I give it here. The
instructions are as follows :
" First take some wax from a deserted bees' comb
and make a wax taper out of it as well as you can ;
stick it upon the rim of a white cup, and repeat this
charm, when you will be able to see the person you
wish to affect in the taper's flame (buleh di-tengo
orang-nya didalam puchok apt}. The charm runs as
follows :
" I know the origin from which you sprang,
From the glitter of the White Blood.
Come down then to your mother,
Stemming both ebb and flood tides,
Cluck ! cluck ! souls of Somebody,
Come all of you together unto me.
Whither would ye go ?
Come down to this house and house-ladder of yours.
This solitary taper is your house and house-ladder,
Since already the liver, stomach, heart, spleen, and great
maw
Of all of you have been given into my care,
So much the more have the body and life
Of all of you been given into my care.
Grant this by the grace of my use
Of the prayer called divination by (secret) cognizance
(tilek ma l
rifat] of Somebody.
"Next you take a fathom's length of thread, with
seven strands, and seven colours running through
the strands (benang tujoh urat, titjoh warna melintang
benang], and a pen made of a splinter of the sugarpalm
(puckok kabong], and draw a portrait of the
person you wish to charm (menulis gambar orang itu}.
When the portrait is finished you suspend it from the
end of a pole by means of the parti-coloured thread,
and make fast the lower end of the pole to the branch
of a tree, fixing it at an angle, so that the portrait may
hang free and be blown to and fro without ceasing