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VIII. Charms In Expiation of Sin and Defilement: VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen

Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (Bloomfield, SBE 42) · 1 passage

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1. What this black bird flying forth towards (me) has dropped here--may the waters protect me from all that misfortune and evil! 2. What this black bird has brushed here with thy mouth, O Nirtiti (goddess of misfortune)-may Agni Gârhapatya (the god of the household fire) free me from this sin!

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file hin/sbe42/av196.htm.

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