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Atharva Veda 19.57A charm against evil dreams
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Hinduism · Vedas · Atharva Veda
Atharva Veda 19.57
A charm against evil dreams
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As men discharge the utmost debt, collect the eighth and sixteenth part, So to the foeman we transfer together all the evil dream.
Princes came together, debts came together, Kushthas came to- gether, Sixteenths came together. The whole evil dream that hath visited us we send away as a bad dream to the man who hates us.
Child of Gods' Consorts, minister of Yama is the good Dream: that which is my trouble we drive away to the enemy.
Thou whose name is Rough art the mouth of the Black Bird. As such we know thee, Dream, as such we know thee well. Like a horse art thou, O Dream. As they bind girth and surcingle on a horse, so bind the alien mischief-maker, the scorner of the Gods.
The evil dream that threatens us, threatens our cattle or our home. That let the scorner of the Gods, the alien mischief-maker bind as a gold jewel round his neck.
Having measured off nine cubits' distance from us we give away the whole of the evil dream to the man who hates us.
