In the Konkan districts there are some persons who practise black art of several kinds such as Chetak, Járan, Máran and Uchátan. Chetak is a kind of evil spirit brought from the temple of the goddess Italái of the Konkan districts. It is brought for a fixed or limited period, and an annual tribute is required to be paid to the goddess for the services. Another kind of black art widely practised in the Konkan districts is known by the name of Muth márane. In this art the sorcerer prepares an image of wheat flour, and worships it with flowers, incense, etc. A lemon pierced with a number of pins is then placed before the image. The sorcerer begins to pour spoonfuls of water mixed with Jagri on the face of the image, and repeats certain mantras. Meanwhile, the lemon gradually disappears and goes to the person whose death it is intended to secure. The person aimed at receives a heavy blow in the chest and at once falls to the ground vomitting blood. Sometimes he is known to expire instantaneously. The charmed lemon, after completing its task returns to the sorcerer, who anxiously awaits its return, for it is believed that if the lemon fails to return some calamity or misfortune is sure to occur to him. For this reason the beginner desiring to be initiated into the mystery of this black art has to make the first trial of his mantras on a tree or a fowl. Females are also initiated into the mysteries of Jádu or black art. Such women are required to go to the burning ground at midnight in a naked state, holding in their hands hearths containing burning coals. While on their way they untie their hair, and then begin the recital of their mantras. There they dig out the bones of buried corpses, bring them home, and preserve them for practising black art. There is a sect of Hindus known as Sháktas who practise the black art. The Sháktas worship their goddess at night, make offerings of wine and flesh, and then feast thereon. APPENDIX. GLOSSARY OF VERNACULAR TERMS OCCURRING IN VOLUMES I AND II. [825] A. ABIL: A kind of incense. ABIR: White scented powder. ADÁCHH: Red cotton yarn. ADÁD: Lentils. ADAGHO BADAGHO: A ceremony performed to drive away insects. ADHÁSUR: Name of a demon. ADHIKAMÁS: Intercalary month. ADI-NÁRÁYAN: A name of Vishnu. ADO: Useless. ADULSA: Name of a medicinal plant. AGÁR: Excreta. AGASTYA: Name of a sage; name of a constellation. AGATHI: A tree, Sesbania Grandiflora. AGATHIO: See Agathi. AGHÁDA: Name of a plant. AGHORI: A sect of Hindus. AGIÁRI: Fire temple of the Pársis. AGNI: Fire; the deity presiding over fire. AGNICHAR: An order of evil spirits living in fire. AGNIHOTRA: A perpetual sacred fire preserved in a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire. AGNIHOTRI: One who keeps an Agnihotra. AGNIKUNDA: A hole in the ground, or an enclosed space, on the surface, or a metal square-mouthed vessel, for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.