“It is not wax that I slay[258]
But the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so.”
And then, after “waving” the figure in the smoke of the incense, and depositing it in the centre of a sacrificial tray (anchak), he invites the spirits to banquet upon his victim’s body:—
“I do not banquet you upon anything else,[259]
But on the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so.”
When the ceremony is over the image is buried in the usual way in front of the victim’s door-step.
Another method is described as follows:—
“Make the wax figure in the usual way and with the usual ingredients. At sundown take parched rice, with white, black, green, and yellow (saffron) rice, a “chew” of betel-leaf, a wax taper and an egg—this latter as the representative of a fowl (ʿisharat ayam). Burn incense, and recite this charm:—
“Peace be with you, O Earth Genie,
Bull-shaped Earth-spirit, Earth-demon, Bull-shaped World-spirit.