{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av078.htm","path":"hin/av/av078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av078.htm","text":"1. May this oblation carry hither the sorcerers, as a river (carries) foam! The man or the woman who has performed this (sorcery), that person shall here proclaim himself!\n 2. This vaunting (sorcerer) has come hither: receive him with alacrity! O Brihaspati, put him into subjection; O Agni and Soma, pierce him through!\n 3. Slay the offspring of the sorcerer, O soma-drinking (Indra), and subject (him)! Make drop out the farther and the nearer eye of the braggart (demon)!\n 4. Wherever, O Agni G\u00e2tavedas, thou perceivest the brood of these hidden devourers (atrin), do thou, mightily strengthened by our charm, slay them: slay their (brood), O Agni, piercing them a hundredfold!","title":"Atharva Veda: III. Imprecations Against Demons, Sorcerers, and Enemies (\u00c2bhik\u00e2rik\u00e2ni and Krity\u00e2pratiharan\u00e2ni): I, 8. Against sorcerers and demons","type":"page"}