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āyum
1
For someone (agent muɴ-) to perform a rooster-laying ritual involving laying a rooster on its side.
A piddāya prayer is recited; a ritualist, mumbā'i, dances with a rooster and spear; the rooster is placed on its side. Finally the ritualist dances, and with a light stroke of the spear causes the rooster to get up and run away.
2
For a spirit possessing a person, a person possessed of a spirit (actor -um-; s actor maN-) to cause a rooster (theme -on) to lie on its side on a pig or on a winnowing basket, without being held and without moving.
Piddāya or pinādeng spirits are called for matters such as the relief of sickness, blessing of a couple marrying, the divorce of a pinadeng spirit who has married a person. If the rooster remains on its side, this is a sign that the spirits called are responding favorably to the petition made.
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