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HYMN VI

A charm to avert evil dreams, and to transfer them to an enemy 1. Now have we conquered and obtained: we have been freed    from sin to-day. 2. Let Morning with her light dispel that evil dream that frightened    us. 3. Bear that away to him who hates, away to him who curses us. 4. To him whom we abhor, to him who hates us do we send it hence. 5. May the Goddess Dawn in accord with Speech, and the Goddess   Speech in accord with Dawn, 6. The Lord of Dawn in accord with the Lord of Speech and the   Lord of Speech in accord with the Lord of Dawn, 7. Carry away to Such-an-one niggard fiends, hostile demons, and   Sadanvas, 8. Kumbhikas, Dushikas, and Piyakas, 9. Evil day-dream, evil dream in sleep, 10. Wishes for boons that will not come, thoughts of poverty, the    snares of the Druh who never releases. 11. This, O Agni, let the Gods bear off to Such-an-one that he may    be a fragile good-for-nothing eunuch.