Discussion on how to drive away reptiles

The house should be sprinkled and covered with what we will talk about later, and the canopy and windows should be lubricated with watering substances, which we will mention when talking about smokehouses and other things, so that reptiles do not approach them. As for smoking, this is, for example, smoke from pomegranate wood - it drives away reptiles - or the roots of iris. Pomegranate branches are remarkable in this regard, as are galbanum, horns, hooves, single- and even-toed ungulates, hair, bdellia, sagapen, asafoetida, leaves and drupes of laurel, mint, sagewort and bedding with kitran and dubrovnik. Fumigation with twigs and bedding made from it, as well as cress and pine tree ash, is useful, especially with galbanum; if you blow smoke from opium, nigella, galbanum, deer antler, sulfur and goat hooves, this drives away snakes and reptiles. Or they take maya, deer horn, nigella and bitumen - part by part, goat fluff and hooves - half of both, cut finely and fumigate the bed with it.

They also take wild cumin, black ferula root and maya - each with ukiyya, ostrich egg shells, nigella and harmala seeds - two ukiyya of each.

They also take cypress or pine leaves, nigella, henbane seeds - darakhmi each, mandrake root bark - darakhmi, goat fluff - three darakhmi, mint - two darakhmi and bitumen - four darakhmi, mix and fumigate with the coals of the vines; such pairs protect against reptiles .

One of the herbs that, if you cover the floor with it, drives away most reptiles is sisanbar. Basil and twigs wonderfully protect against reptiles if you cover the floor around the bed with them, just as wormwood and asafoetida laurel have a wonderful effect in this regard; the same thing happens if you sprinkle pine tree ash around the room.

Here is one of the precautions to remove the reptiles: lamps and lamps are placed in a place distant from the bedroom, and the reptiles are sent there. Another way to ward off reptiles and insects is to keep in the house, for example, a stork, a peacock, egg-laying birds, deer, hedgehogs, weasels and similar animals; the reptiles are afraid of them, and if they appear, they kill them. They say that if someone makes himself a tablecloth from leopard skin, then no snake will approach him, and the same will happen if such a robe is made. This was told by a man whose words cannot be trusted.