You shall be a rebel unto God,” etc.

Sometimes the desired effect is expected to be obtained by a charm for locking the tiger’s jaws:—

“Ho, Sir Cruncher! Ho, Sir Muncher!

Let the twig break under the weight of the wild goose.

Fast shut and locked be (your jaws), by virtue of ʿAli Mustapah,

OM. Thus I break (the tusks of) all beasts that are tusked,

By virtue of this Prayer from the Land of Siam.”[92]

The next specimen is described as a “charm for fascinating” (striking fear into) a “tiger and hardening one’s own heart”:—

“O Earth-Shaker, rumble and quake!