The Insanity-Inducing Circle

31.1“To make a circle that will induce insanity, use water infused with datura to draw a nine-compartment circle with inner and outer sections on cloth or paper. In the central compartment write ha ha devadatta ha ha. In the inner compartments write hha hha hha hha hha hha hha hha. In the eight outer compartments write hha oṁ hha | hha tā hha | hha re hha | hha tut hha | hha tā hha | hha re hha | hha tu hha | hha re hha. Place the circle into a grass amulet and recite the mantra as fast as you can. Then conceal it at a crossroads and pile datura on it. Insanity will then be induced. To relieve the insanity, wash an effigy with butter, honey, and cow’s milk. The target will thereby recover.”

31.2This was the thirty-first chapter, “The Insanity-Inducing Circle.”