Sástes gráy ác mánge!”
“A straw, a hair!
May you never be hungry!
May he who steals you die!
Like the hair and the straw,
May he go to the ground!
Earth, these things to thee!
May a sound horse be mine!”
If the animal be a mare and it is desired that she shall be with foal, they give her oats to eat out of an apron or a gourd, and say:—
“Trin kánályá, trin jiuklá,