Maria Pozharova, incantations, signs and prohibitions
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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Maria says that every whirlwind has a shulm (evil spirit) sitting in the middle and spinning the wind around. When a whirlwind passes near you, throw a knife and sprinkle water into it, while saying the following incantation: ‘Shulm, shulm where are you going to? Don’t come to us!’ Hair that falls during combing should be destroyed in a fire. Otherwise, ‘dogam’ spirits may use the lost hair to influence the person to whom the hair locks belonged. Old clothes should be also disposed of by burning.
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Whirlwind, spirit, ritual, incantation, hair, fire, old clothes
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.