Enregistrement de l'histoire de l'âne de Nasreddin Hodja en népalais

Interview with an old man (d. 2010) recorded to illustrate a dialect of Nepali spoken in Achham.

The first half hour of "Payalpur's Recital 3", a text similar to the "Dowry recital", particularly relevant to women and women's afflictions. Each line is recited by the shaman Ginde Th��p�� and repeated by his disciples, the shamans Tam Bah��dur Ada�� and Dal Bah��dur ...

Conclusion of the Tiligrama recital: the shaman cures the king of Sinja (who he has earlier cursed) and they divide their jurisdictions into the rulings of the day, the king's, and the rulings of the night, the shaman's. The shaman Gumān Kāmī (d. 1960) is from Syāulā Vi...

A short mantra to order away a disease. The shaman Gum��n K��m�� (d. 1960) is from Sy��ul�� Village, Lah��, J��jarko���. Published in Maskarinec, Gregory G., 1998, Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts I, Harvard Oriental Series volume 55, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, Eng...

The beginning of the narrative myth "The Nine Good Skillful Ones", recited by the shaman Harib��n K��m�� of Bobang (d. 2003 aged 57). The text concerns the origin of the first shaman and of witches. The digitalization is an extract from the digitalization of the cassett...

A mantra for house-protection, from the Bhuji Khola, Baglung District, Nepal. The shaman, ���alle K��m��, was a student of Deor��m K��m��. The right canal is weak for about 26 seconds at the beginning of the recording.

This recital, according to Karṇa Vīr, is applied at the beginning of every ceremony for protection against witches. The text itself, however, does not have much to do with witches, and is a more general invocation of deities enlisted to protect the body. It suggests con...

Conversation recorded to illustrate a dialect of Nepali spoken in Achham. Mother (A) and family members