As a particularly powerful conjuration against thieves, the owner runs thrice, while quite naked, round the animal or object which he wishes to protect, and repeats at every turn:—

“Oh coreyá ná prejiá.

Dureder ná ává!

T’re vástá, t’re punrá

Avená kirñodyá

Te ádá pedá láves!”

“Oh, thief, do not go,

Further do not come!

Thy hands, thy feet