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the flute as she playing it towards the water spring. Then
you order another slave girl as pretty and as young either
similar in age or younger than the first one, to take a drum
and as she is playing on the drum to sing in her best voice
and the first one with the flute to follow this second slave's
singing, then the water will rise and increase in the spring
either at that moment or after fourteen hours from that
time or in the same time of that flute playing for three
hours and the singing of the second for six hours so the
total of nine hours will rise and increase the water in the
spring the next day so much more than the usual amount
There is another charm that you can do for increasing
the water and that is to take a couple pretty and virgin
slave girls and order them to dress m different color
dresses that do not match each other, then you give two of
them flutes to play with, one of them a drum, the others an
musical instrument a mandolin and the last one a different
kind of flute. Then as they are facing the water spring thev
play the instruments and sing as they are standing about
two cubits away from the spring, then slowly as they are
playing and singing move further away from the water,
they do that till they are twenty cubits away from the
water. Then they approach the water slowlv the same way
they went further away from it and without stopping, they
continue playing and singing, they do that till they are one
cubit dose to the water. They do this for a full seven times
and the water will rise and increase more that before either
at the same moment or after that within a little while.
The ancient Indians said that the using the bush-grass
in their charm formulas is very useful and important for
their thoughts and minds even the people around that they
smell the smoke of it and the Indians used it as an incense
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