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

A short mantra to order away a disease. The shaman Gumān Kāmī (d. 1960) is from Syāulā Village, Lahã, Jājarkoṭ. Published in Maskarinec, Gregory G., 1998, Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts I, Harvard Oriental Series volume 55, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, Har...

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...

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 Thāpā and repeated by his disciples, the shamans Tam Bahādur Adaī and Dal Bahādur Adai....

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

A mantar (mantra), spoken and sung, from the Bhuji Khola, Baglung District, Nepal. The shaman, Ḍalle Kāmī, was a student of Deorām Kāmī.

A mantra for house-protection, from the Bhuji Khola, Baglung District, Nepal. The shaman, Ḍalle Kāmī, was a student of Deorām Kāmī. 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...