As you say this, “catch” the first puff of smoke and inhale it (tangkap-lah puchok asap, chium), as it rises towards you. If the smell is pleasant (sĕdap) it is a good sign; if it has a scorched smell (hangit) it is bad; but if it smells offensive (busok) no medicine can save the patient.
Next, before you look into the jars, take handfuls of “parched,” “washed,” and “saffron” rice, and after fumigating them over the incense, strew them all round the row of jars, saying as you do so:—
“Cluck, cluck! souls of So-and-so, all seven of you![121]
Come, and let all of us here together
See (about the) medicine for (you) O souls of So-and-so.”
Here strew (tabor) the rice first to the right, then to the left, and then to the right again.
Before removing the calladium-leaves from the jar-mouths, repeat the following:—
“Peace be with you, Prophet ’Tap, in whose charge is the earth,
Suawam, in whose charge are the heavens,
Prophet Noah, in whose charge are the Trees,