The Black Art

Chapter V.

Simulacraque cerea figit
Et miserum tenues in jecur urget acus.

Ovid, Heroides, vi. 91, 92.

From the Baiga or Ojha, who by means of his grain sieve fetish identifies the particular evil spirit by which his patient is afflicted, we come to the regular witch or wizard. He works in India by means and appliances which can be readily paralleled by the procedure of his brethren in Western countries.