hmulesnThe traditional medicine for increasing the rice harvest (while it is being harvested).Ke hebkesi hmules bè dumu tau, sal wen teken. Ke là, là mtuden.If you have another person tie on the medicine for increasing the rice harvest, there is always a remuneration for doing it. If not, it is not effective.The ingredients used for this medicine have the characteristic of not being used up quickly, symbolizing that the harvest will be so thick it will not be finished quickly. These ingredients are placed inside a section of small bamboo about 6-8 in. long. The opening is carefully glued shut with beeswax, then it is tied to a clump of rice in the field. To make sure the medicine will stay tied on the rice until the harvesting is over, the tie is made from ulób naf 'tie of a small bamboo,' and the tie is made to go around the clump of rice eight times. It is tied on in the afternoon before harvesting is to begin. Since it is taboo for another person to arrive at the field while it is being tied on, it is done at dusk when no one is likely to be around. It is also taboo for anyone to arrive at the field the next morning before the one who tied the medicine in place has arrived. There are several other taboos and to break any of them will prevent the medicine from being effective. The care taken by everyone involved in the harvesting to make sure that this does not happen is called hen-gulinen yem hmules 'respecting the medicine for harvesting'. Some bury the medicine in their field which symbolizes that just as the buried medicine will rot, so they will have such a large harvest some of the grain will rot before it can be harvested.vTo make the medicine for harvesting (as described above).ge-, he-, ke-, -em-, -en-, se-, n-.Henmulesem kut tum halay.Make the medicine for increasing the harvest of rice for us.

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