Anhte nta matu ngau shaw yang
shaloi nat ni hpe shawng sun-
tan ai. Nam de hpa masen
mayoi, machi makaw n
khrum n khra u ga suntan ai.
Nta ngut yang tingshawn shang
a'

Ya mam ting na majaw wa
langai mi ka lup na, ka nat
hpe jaw ai.
Htawktang pru ai majaw marfe
ni shawa nat hpe jaw na ta.
English.
The (praying) priest has finished, call the
sacrificial priest.
When the buffalo is killed hand it over to
the priest who cuts it up and arranges
the different parts for the altars.
Do not put anything on the family nat
altar (in the' house). Th& nats mW be
angry.
We shall to-night make a small offering (as
a reminder) to the (family) nat] go and
ask our neighbours for eggs or smaJl
dried fish.
We will make a small offering because a

small child has a cold.
The neighbour's wife died in childbirth

last night ; go quickly and cut some

raspberry branches.
Stick the raspberry branches at the doors

that the nat may not enter.
When a woman died in childbirth last year
a neighbour did not stick up raspberry
branches and therefore died a violent
death';

We will to-night make an offering to the
spirit of the dead.
The chief cannot go to-day ; he has gone
into the district to give funeral invita-
tions.
When a man dies where does he go to ?
The priest sends him to his ancestors.
When we collect material (post, bamboos,
&c.) for a house we first inform the
nats. We inform them so that we may
not meet with accidents from thorns or
spikes or get ill.
When the house is finished we invoke a
blessing on it and enter.
