{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06056.htm","path":"hin/av/av06056.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06056.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Let not the serpent slay us, O Gods, with our children and our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0folk.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let it not close the opened mouth nor open that which now is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0closed.\n 2Be worship paid unto the black, worship to that with stripes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0across!\n \u00a0\u00a0To the brown viper reverence, reverence to the demon brood!\n 3I close together fangs with fang, I close together jaws with jaw.\n \u00a0\u00a0I close together tongue with tongue, I close together mouth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with mouth.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 56: A charm against snakes","type":"page"}