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over the parents' sleeping place. The sherh, consisting of the
head, feet, heart and liver, and wings, are placed in a small
basket and thrown away in the morning.

Ed-Khal.—A goat is killed in a place where the water tubes
are kept; its flesh is cooked inside the house. The sherh
are hung on a cane in the front verandah. The hrilh lasts
three days, and during that time no intercourse must be held
with strangers, nor must any of the household enter the forge.

These three sacrifices should always be performed soon after
marriage, but poor persons postpone them till ill-health shows
that the Huais will wait no longer. Dreams are also the means
of notifying when a Khal should be performed. If a person
dreams of a beautiful stranger of the opposite sex who laughs
constantly, then the Vok-te-Khal should be performed, and if the
dream is repeated often Ar-Khal must follow or the dreamer will
certainly get ill. Should a tiger bite the dreamer, Kel-Khal is
most urgently needed, and if not performed the dreamer will
certainly die. Persons who dream this dream are so frightened
that they will not leave their houses after dark, nor stir
beyond the village during the day, for fear of a tiger seizing
them.

Van-cTiung-KfiaL—A white cock is killed on the hearth and
the flesh cooked inside the house. The sherh are placed in a
winnowing basket on the top shelf over the hearth with salt
and a little rice taken from the pot before anyone has eaten.
The next morning it is thrown away. Hrilh only for one
night.

Khal-chuang or Mei-awr-lo.—" Tail not worn "—because it is
not obligatory for the performer to wear the tail on a string
round his neck as is is done in Kel-Khal.

A goat is killed as in Kel-Khal and the sherh are treated in
the same way, but the flesh must not be cooked till the next
day, and it is " thiang-lo " to eat "thei-hai" fruit. Though this
sacrifice is so very similar to the Kel-Khal, yet it is considered
more efficacious.

The commonest of these is " Tui-leh-ram " (water and land).
This sacrifice has to be performed at the outskirts of the village.
It is to appease the demons inhabiting the woods and the
streams.