This hut is called the Magic Prince,

This decoy is called Prince Distraction.

Si Raja Nyila (from sila, mĕnyila) is the name given to the long slender rods with fine hair-like nooses at the end with which the pigeons are snared and dragged into the hut (vide App. [xli].) [↑]

[51] Vide App. [xxxvii]. [↑]

[52] Vide App. [xlv]. [↑]

[53] Vide App. [xlvii]. [↑]

[54] Ibid. [↑]

[55] Ibid. Note that the house-door must not face towards the south; if it faces southwards there will be no luck in the house and everything will go wrong.—J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 30, p. 306. Vide App. [lv]. [↑]

[56] Perhaps a corruption of “Bĕntara,” or Batara, Guru (i.e. Shiva), which is what we should here expect (vide the charms a few pages farther on). “Mĕntri” usually means “minister.” [↑]

[57] Vide App. [xlvii]. [↑]