Sweeping and blowing, the folk healer's physical gesture over a patient. The Chhattisgarh Act of 2005 names it among the means by which an ojhā claims to cure, and penalises it only where it is performed on someone already named a witch.

Where this term appears

• The harm ledger Treatise →

  A book about a vernacular mantra vocabulary has found jhār-phūṅk , ṭoṭkā and tantra-mantra written into a legislative definition, alongside a defined tonahi and a defined identifier.

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