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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at

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HYMN XXXVI

A charm against disease and evil spirits

1The Hundred-haired hath banished hence fiends and Consump-
  tions by its might.
 With splendour hath the charm that scares demons of ill-name
  mounted up.
2It drives off demons with its horns and sorceresses with its root,
 It stays Consumption with its waist: from this no wickedness
  escapes.
3Consumptions, light and serious, and those which sounds
  accompany,
 All these the Amulet, Hundred-haired, scarer of fiends, hath
  banished hence.
4A hundred men hath it produced, hundred Consumptions chased
  away,
 All fiends of evil-name it hath smitten, and shakes the
 Rākshasas.
5The Bull that weareth horns of gold, this Amulet with hundred
  hairs,
 Hath cleft the demons of ill-name and overcome the Rākshasas.
6Hundred she-fiends, a hundred of Gandharvas and Apsarasas,
 A hundred of dog-mated nymphs, I keep away with Hundred-
 Hair