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should dislocate his joints one by one, and it is requisite that they give him as food to the dogs. 10. So that by this action they may make a man observe more chastely and continently, that this result ('hâzil) of sin may not occur.
CHAPTER XXXVII. 1. The thirty-seventh subject is this, that, when the days of the guardian spirits come on, it is necessary that all persons, among their own food and devotion, should order and provide the sacred cakes and ceremonial, the sacred feast and benedictions (âfringân). 2. For these ten days it is incumbent on every one; and those are better which they prepare in their own houses, because the souls? go every one to its own house. 3. And they should have an ear for thems, so that they may prepare the sacred cakes and feast and benedictions.
4. Those ten days any one of all the souls—that are in this way“ in every house where they provide the feast more abundantly-proclaims, as to that master of the house5, that family, and the whole who are in that house, and the year's affairs of every kind, that they are very good, and their entry (da'hl) and coming in are very good. 5. And every single
1 See Mkh. LVII, 13 n. 2 Which are supposed to revisit the earth during those days. s Or for these words' as the Gugarâti translator assumes.
• Lp, B29 have those ten days all the souls are in this worldly existence.'
o Lp omits these five words, and B29 adds 'the mistress of the house.'
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