FAA AGAIN
So the next day I took the toy motorbike and gave to Nuzrath. I was feeling maybe that it was for his kid, Muad, but later I found that wasn't the case.
Nuzrat didnt let me get away, he made me sit down and showed me how he had taken Amor's lost sock and sewed it onto the plastic biker guy, like a kind of body bag/straight jacket.
When Im doing this I have to undergo some rituals and I have to do some chanting , he told me. And he had to draw a particular charm on a thin piece of copper plating which he stuffed into the stomach of the plastic doll. He had an ancient book with these charms drawn in it and he put on his glasses to look through this book. It looked as if the page corners were all worn out. He must have studied this book a lot.
He also found ashes, they say from a crematorium.
In Sri Lanka there is a market for the ashes of dead people, which were unclaimed. So these may be ashes from some homeless person, or elderly beggar, which no one had picked up. They were used for black magic of various kinds. He had a supplier from the Modera Cemetery. He sprinkled the ashes all over the little doll, and also anointed it in a certain kind of oil that had been taken from a kind of rare lizard. I don't ever support animal cruelty, so I would not have allowed him to do this for me. But he seemed to already have these items in stock. Finally the doll looked and smelt really bad and he put it in a jute bag, which he was going to chant over 108 times.
He had a lot of strange little bottles in a cupboard in his office room, and I saw behind a curtain, he had small bottles of all sizes and shapes, with beautiful lettering all over them in a different language. It looked a little like Aladins cave, but without any gold.
He showed me a strange wooden box that was painted and dusty. He took it from a compartment in an old cupboard which had an old black padlock to it.
Do you know what is in this?he said. It looked like it may contain an ola leaf manuscript. It had a small catch on it and with some difficulty he opened the lid. There was something strange lying there, and slightly smelly too like fish bacon. I thought it was some kind of long animal like a sea slug. Or a piece of dried meat, but not dried to be completely solid, it was more like bacon, and red and brown colored. It was about eight inches long.
This is a pilluwa. He said
I had thought that a pilluwa was a dead person or a mummified corpse brought to life to do what the exorcist said..., I looked at him with the quesitons in my eyes.
A mahasohon pilluwa is obtained from a special kind of person. It is the child of a pair of dwarves, and the exorcist keeps an eye out in the village if such a pair are to get married. Their child usually dies early. Do you know how much we have to suffer to get this? How rarely this happens? The kattadiya has to identify these people. Has to track them for years. Has to ensure that the body is not cremated but is buried. Has to prepare for weeks before the ritual. He should be a person strong in mind who does not get easily scared.
He must find a similar assistant who is also very tough and brave. The assistant will prepare the offerings. Four kinds of demons visit during this ritual and if either the kattadiya or his assistant baulks, or shows the least amount of fear, they will smite them and turn their minds to fever and they will end up in the lunatic asylum after that.
The ritual has to be carried out in the jungle near the cemetery. At a certain time of the month when the moon is a certain level, the ritual has to be initiated. The corpse of that child has to be dug up and kept on the ground. The incantations have to go on for hours.
The first demon to come takes the harmless shape, of a hen with some small chickens. The assistant has to throw rice grains at this hen and they will eat it and go away. Then a huge cobra slithers up hissing. The Assistant must not be afraid of the cobra, the chanting must go on, and an egg is given to the cobra.
Just one egg..? I said taking this all in.
Yes one egg. Then in the middle of the night an elephant comes which is pretty scarey. Elephants are not nocturnal so you know that these are demons. The elephant too has red eyes and is drooling. He proceeds to ruin the whole locality, charging about and roaring. The kattadiyas have to stand their ground and when he seems tired, they have to throw a piece of banana plant for it to take. Then it carries that and goes away.
Finally, Mahasoha himself comes. He is so hideous with his jaws open that that is all you see, his lower jaw scraping the earth, and his top jaw blocking the sky. Between them the entrance to hell. He spends a lot of time screaming and destroying the area, and then when he becomes quiet we have to give him a live chicken.
I didnt like that part of the story because Im dead against animal cruelty. But I guess most people didnt care.
Finally when it is all over, we can animate the corpse and it sits up and tries to extend its tongue and lick the gurunanse.
At that point he must take a sharp knife and cut the tongue off. The Pilluwa is the tongue which is taken and preserved. The rest of the corpse is simply reburied.
Are you sure you want to do this?Nuzrat checked with me a couple of times as he was going through the rituals. They were taking a lot of time and he took breaks from work every couple of hours.
I'm sure about it.
There is no turning back from what may happen. He warned
Also, I cannot be sure what will happen. It might be nothing much. It depends on the position of his stars too and these days they are fairly bad. In fact they are aligned towards an accident of some kind. But do you know this is an evil thing you are doing and also you are making me do this. We will both suffer. Do you understand that?
Nuzrat insisted that he would not take payment from me.
Because it has to be clear that I am doing this because you asked me, and because you are suffering some kind of injustice. I should not be benefiting from this evil. If I benefit from this, my life will be negatively affected some other way. I have a wife and family. I don't want there to be any bad effects on them. I am only doing this to help you because you said you were so desperate.
And another thing. said Nuzrat...I want to tell you. I received a message last night while I was in a trance. It is information for you. Are you these days in a secret relationship with a married man you care about?
This caught my attention and I sat up and stared at him, in horror.
I started thinking hard about what he was saying. How could anyone know about Saki and me and how could I answer this question? I didn't deny it.
Do you eat meals sent by someone? Someone is poisoning you, to make you both break up. To make you hate him.
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