“Cluck, cluck, souls of So-and-so, all seven of you,
Return ye unto your own house and house-ladder!
Here are your parents come to summon you back,
Back to your own house and house-ladder, your own clearing and yard,
To the presence of your own parents, of your own family and relations,
Go not to and fro,
But return to your own home.”
When three days have expired, gather up the rice again and put it all back into the bag. If there is a grain over throw it to the fowls, but if the measure falls short repeat the ceremony.
Again, in order to recall an escaping soul (riang sĕmangat) the soul-doctor will take a fowl’s egg, seven small cockle-shells (kulit k’rang tujoh kĕping), and a kal[146] of husked rice, and put them all together into a rice-bag (sumpit). He then rubs the bag all over the skin of the patient’s body, shakes the contents well up together, and deposits it again close to the patient’s head. Whilst shaking them up he repeats the following charm:—
“Cluck! cluck! soul of this sick man, So-and-so,