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Some days I can do in 15 minutes, other days, when I'm feeling particularly hirsute, it can take nearer 15 hours.
Still... it's worth the struggle.
Yup.
Anyway...er maybe you'd love to:
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Strobist:
Two Bowens Gemini Pro 500's with big softboxes camera left and right, at 45 degrees, both set on 3.0. Triggered by PC cord cable.
A pellet just hitting a little button of lead. You can see the skirt of the pellet just diving in. Afterwords, the pellet is all smashed into a little cavity.
The button is made from a bunch of smushed up pellets from my trap.
Recycle.
Did a short bike ride today, up towards Santa Barbara. Watched a small pod of dolphins swimming south. Don't remember ever seeing dolphins in the wild before. I was envious of the surfers as they were very close.
Chapter 3 --"Devil's Crucible,"
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942). Starring Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Lorna Gray, Charles Middleton, William Benedict. Directed by William Witney. Wonderful Republic-style artwork of Aldridge
From 1942, this is still another great Republic classic. (I suppose I could have started these reviews with tired, lifeless serials like PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO, but why not have fun first?) It has a terrific cast with a half dozen of my all-time favorite actors, a credible storyline, some really impressive sets and imaginative 'Perils', and finally, an epic-sounding main theme by Mort Glickman. This would go in the top dozen serials on my list.
PERILS OF NYOKA deals with the struggle for possession of another hot potato that everyone covets-- in this case, the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, on which the ancient physician recorded his great medical secrets (including a cure for cancer). Not only are gold tablets valuable for their knowledge and the metal itself, they were hidden with a treasure. So it's not surprising to find the sinister Vultura and her gang of renegade Arbabs trying to seize the darn things. Vultura is played by the exotic Lorna Gray, who is a bit ripe looking for my taste but her sneering performance and long long legs have must have gotten many young boys in the audience a bit hot and bothered. (There's something about a Bad Girl...)
Vultura's main henchman is Cassib, played by the same Charles Middleton who made life interesting for Flash Gordon and Dick Tracy. Middleton has that sour, unhappy expression that makes his villainy as believable as the sort of old man who chases kids off his lawn. As if that's not enough, there's also the treacherous Torrini who poses as an ally of Nyoka. Tristram Coffin as Torrini gives an okay performance, just showing enough shiftiness to make his loyalty obviously doubtful to the kids in the audience. As good as Coffin was as a villain, I always wished he had done more heroic roles like his Jeff King in KING OF THE ROCKETMEN.
And as if THAT wasn't enough trouble for Nyoka to deal with, Vultura has a pet ape named Satan, who had never heard Diane Fossey's findings that gorillas are peaceful, gentle vegetarians. Satan was played by Emil Van Horn in a rather weak portrayal that doesn't seem to give much effort into moving like a real gorilla. And although you have to give 1940s film makers some slack with their robot and apes costumes, the way Satan's chest skin looks like shiny black rubber detracts from its credibility. This is where you have to crank your
suspension of disbelief up a few notches.
Whew! What a crew. Luckily, not only can Nyoka handle herself perfectly well, she has a partner in Dr Larry Grayson who is (for a physician) an astonishingly tough two-fisted sword-fighting gunslinger. My doctor's not like that. Clayton Moore is always convincing as hero or thug, and he seems agile and energetic enough to have been a stunt man himself. (At first, it seems a bit odd to hear that wonderful, familiar Lone Ranger voice coming from this character.) Moore goes through the serial in the classic Doc Savage outfit of riding boots, jodphurs and heavy white shirt, although this does not end up torn into tatters with the right cuff still attached.
Finally, Nyoka herself is completely likeable as a cliffhanger heroine. ("That Nyoka gal's got plenty of moxie.." one character explains.) Daughter of the missing Professor Gordon, she is well educated (one of the few who can translate the Tablets) but also completely at home in the saddle or jumping on a gorilla's back with a knife in her hand. I love Kay Aldridge's performance as Nyoka. She's serious when in danger, taking the 'perils' straight-faced but at the same time, she's obviously having a lot of fun when things are going well. It's very believable, not a grim warrior-woman sort of portrayal. Aldridge herself is appealing and gorgeous in her 1940s pin-up girl way-- her clunky culottes are not flattering at all (although admittedly practical for the situation) and she seems to be notably gifted under that big-game hunter blouse. Nyoka also seems to have two different accents going on, for some reason.
My copy of PERILS OF NYOKA is a re-issue titled NYOKA AND THE TIGERMEN, apparently because some of the Arab raiders wear striped robes. C'mon, that's stretching things a bit, Republic.Nyoka Gordon (Kay Aldridge) leads an expedition into the most remote part of the Libyan desert in search of her father, Professor Henry Gordon (Robert Strange), who disappeared while seeking out the long-lost golden tablets of Hippocrates. The tablets, among other attributes, are reputed to contain the cures for any number of deadly diseases that still plague mankind. Nyoka and her father are the only two people in the world who can translate the papyrus giving directions to the hiding place of the tablets. Her allies in her search include: Dr. Larry Grayson (Clayton Moore), a young physician; Torrini (Tristram Coffin), an Italian adventurer; Professor Campbell (Forbes Murray), a colleague of her father's; and Red Davis (Billy Benedict), their driver. Opposing them is Vultura (Lorna Gray), the leader of a deadly desert cult, who regard the tablets as sacred and will do anything -- including committing murder -- to prevent their discovery and removal. Aided by her ally, Cassib (Charles B. Middleton), and the Taureg tribesmen, Vultura and her cultists lay all manner of deadly traps, involving everything from burning pits of fire and tunnels filled with hurricane-like winds to just plain getting crushed by the embrace of Vultura's trained gorilla, Satan (Emil Van Horn). Meanwhile, Nyoka and her expedition also face the danger of treachery from within. Nyoka must first secure the papyrus and avenge the murder of Major Reynolds in the opening chapter, and then get past the opposing Taureg tribesmen -- and little does she realize that the leader of the Tauregs is far closer to her than she ever could have guessed.
The action in Nyoka and the Tigermen moves at a breakneck pace across 15 chapters, most of which are as exciting as anything in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels (each of which drew a lot of their inspiration from this and one other Republic serial, Secret Service in Darkest Africa). Beyond its genuinely exciting plot, which intersects with reality just enough to keep even adults interested (there really are a North African people called the Tauregs), Nyoka and the Tigermen contains some delightful twists in its casting, production, and writing. Nyoka Gordon, as played by Kay Aldridge, is no typical movie heroine. She's beautiful, athletic, and resourceful, enough so that in the first chapter, she rides down Arab horsemen. She's perfectly capable of fighting, climbing, or diving her way out of trouble, a kind of 1940s American precursor to Emma Peel. Additionally, Lorna Gray's Vultura was, if anything, even more beautiful, and they make an enchanting pair of antagonists, especially when they mix it up physically. Both put 100 percent effort into their work here, assisted by one of the best directors and some of the best stuntmen in the business. Clayton Moore looked, if anything, better here than he did as the Lone Ranger at the other end of the decade and he made a dashing hero in his own right. Watch him in action here and see if he doesn't look like he would've been the perfect Bruce Wayne/Batman of his era. Even Emil Van Horn, in the silliest role in the movie -- as the gorilla Satan -- has a kind of visceral impact as this constantly menacing beast. Working from one of the best scripts that the studio ever devised for one of its serials, director William Witney and a crew of top stuntmen (including David Sharpe and a young Jay Silverheels), made this one of the most exciting serials ever to come out of Hollywood. More than that, the resulting chapterplay has an appeal that cuts
across the ages, as demonstrated by the debt owed to it by the Indiana Jones movies.
Another take on Nyoka and additional back ground info.
Perils of Nyoka aka Nyoka and the Tigermen
Republic, 15 Chapters, 1942. Starring Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Billy Benedict, Lorna Gray, Charles Middleton, Tristram Coffin, Robert Strange, Forbes Murray, George Pembroke.
As Perils of Nyoka opens, Prof. Douglas Campbell (Forbes Murray) and his expedition arrive in the small North African town of Wadi Bartha; they are seeking an ancient treasure trove that contains–among other priceless artifacts–the Tablets of Hippocrates, on which are inscribed ”the only cure for cancer the world has ever known.” Campbell and his colleagues, including Dr. Larry Grayson (Clayton Moore), are principally interested in the Tablets’ value to humanity, but Count Benito Torrini (Tristram Coffin), the Italian colonial official attached to the expedition, has more mercenary ideas in mind and is conspiring with the devious Arab queen Vultura (Lorna Gray) to seize the treasure. After being joined by Nyoka Gordon (Kay Aldridge), the daughter of an archeologist who vanished years ago looking for the Tablets, the expedition sets out in search of the Tablets and Nyoka’s missing father, journeying into the hidden valley of the sun-worshipping Tuareg tribe while fighting Vultura and her ally Cassib (Charles Middleton) every step of the way.
Well-written, well-directed, and well-cast, Perils of Nyoka represents Republic serial-making at its absolute peak. Writers Ronald Davidson, Norman Hall, William Lively, Joseph O’Donnell, and Joseph Poland utilize a “quest” structure for their screenplay, one which keeps the characters on the move from one location to the next. The heroes must first translate an important papyrus before beginning their journey to the Tuaregs’ valley, where, upon arrival, they have to deal with the hostile natives and their chief–Nyoka’s amnesic father Professor Gordon (Robert Strange). Then, they must rescue Gordon from Vultura and restore his memory, unmask Torrini’s treachery, return to the Tuaregs’ valley for another important clue, locate the treasure, and recover it in a final showdown after it’s stolen by Vultura. This storyline not only provides plenty of opportunities for action scenes, but also gives the serial a strong sense of steadily focused progression towards a definite goal, making its overall narrative much more interesting than the loosely connected plots of many other Republic serials.
This well-paced narrative plays out in an impressive variety of indoor sets and outdoor locations–the honeycomb of tunnels in the Tuareg valley, Vultura’s mammoth palace and the cliffs nearby, numerous caverns, and various rocky hillsides. Of all Republic’s serials set in foreign realms, Nyoka manages to be the most successful in creating a believably exotic atmosphere; it helps that arid Californian locales like Iverson’s Movie Ranch and Corriganville can more convincingly double for the North African hills than they could for other African locales, like the sub-equatorial jungles or the Sahara desert.
The serial’s action scenes are handled with gusto by William Witney and his star stuntman David Sharpe. One of the many action highlights is Nyoka and Larry’s invasion of Vultura’s palace in Chapter One, which has Clayton Moore’s Larry (doubled by Sharpe) practically flying around the throne room in a combination swordfight/fistfight and eventually being attacked by Vultura’s pet gorilla Satan (Emil Van Horn), who pulls down several stone pillars on our hero and heroine. The pursuit of Nyoka by Cassib’s horsemen in Chapter Two is another memorable action sequence, as is her subsequent chariot escape from Vultura’s camp following a fight with the evil queen. There are far too many additional standout scenes for me to describe them all, but among them are the fight in the lava caves, Larry’s battle with hostile Tuaregs in their cavern temple, Nyoka trying to escape down a cliff on a rope while Satan tugs on the other end, the Tuaregs’ primitive hand-grenade attack on the expedition, and the final showdown in which Larry fights Cassib and his men while Nyoka grapples with Vultura.
The cliffhanger sequences are consistently imaginative and include one of the best-known chapter endings in the Republic canon, the sequence that has Kay Aldridge dangling over a Tuareg fire pit. Equally memorable chapter endings have Aldridge and Forbes Murray being forced towards a ceiling of spikes by an ascending floor, Aldridge about to be sliced in two by a lethal pendulum, and Aldridge being inexorably blown towards the edge of a cliff in an impressive wind tunnel.
Dave Sharpe not only doubles Clayton Moore, but also fills in for Kay Aldridge on all the really dangerous stunts. Stuntwoman Babe DeFreest doubles the heroine in other sequences, with Helen Thurston filling in for Lorna Gray; Tom Steele performs most of Charles Middleton’s stunts, while Ken Terrell, Duke Green, Duke Taylor, Henry Wills, Bud Wolfe, and Johnny Daheim make many contributions as well. Most of these stuntmen, of course, also do acting duty as various Arabs throughout the serial.
Perils of Nyoka’s action is complemented beautifully by Mort Glickman’s score, which is distinctive, memorable, and very well-suited to the setting, with a persistent but not overdone “Arabian” motif dominating both its fast-paced “action” theme and its slower opening-credits music.
The serial’s cast is filled with appealing performers, although its ostensible star, Kay Aldridge, is probably the weakest thespian in the group. Her line delivery is very energetic but awkward at times, and her face is frequently expressionless during dialogue scenes–although she does a fine job registering alarm in cliffhanger sequences. Still, Aldridge is so beautiful, and so likable despite her stiffness, that her presence really has no negative impact on the serial.
Clayton Moore contributes an enormous amount of energy to his part, continually taking the lead in both dialogue and action scenes. He delivers his lines with both seriousness and a certain swashbuckling enthusiasm, and rides and runs with an admirable athleticism that matches well with the dynamism of his double Dave Sharpe in the fight scenes. He, far more than Aldridge, comes off as the actual star of the serial.
Lorna Gray is haughty, viciously bad-tempered, and gleefully evil by turns, but never hammy or over-the-top. Her good looks contrast so startlingly with her convincingly appalling behavior that she commands attention when on-screen; her Vultura is probably the most memorable of all female serial heavies.
Charles Middleton has less time in the spotlight than in his 1930s serials, but his Cassib is still an intimidating figure, glowering grimly at Vultura’s enemies and infusing his Arabian-Nights-style dialogue with both menace (“If you let her escape, you will find death a pleasant relief from your punishment”) and dignity (“What brings you to this humble huddle of tents, Gracious One?”)
Billy Benedict, as the Campbell expedition’s driver and mechanic Red, provides low-key but amusing comic relief, stealing scenes with a single facial expression or a bit of incongruous slang. His scenes with his pet Capuchin monkey Jitters (played by “Professor”) are much more appealing than most such animal-sidekick interchanges; the monkey is not only cute but genuinely helpful to the good guys more than once, and Benedict seems to have a genuine rapport with the little creature.
One of the additional joys of Perils of Nyoka is the unusually large cast of interesting supporting characters; in sharp contrast to many Republic outings, Nyoka features meaty speaking parts for characters besides the hero, heroine, villain, action heavy, and sidekick. Robert Strange, as Nyoka’s amnesic father, has the most important supporting role and does an excellent job in both aspects of his part, dropping his grim, slow-talking, and crafty Tuareg-chieftain personality for a more kindly, upright, and brisk manner when his character’s memory is restored.
Forbes Murray is authoritative but genially avuncular as Campbell, the expedition head, and surprisingly gets in on quite a bit of action. George Pembroke, as a British expedition named Spencer, also takes part in many fights and shootouts, and provides some mild but entertaining comic relief through his verbal interchanges with Billy Benedict’s Red, in which the English scientist and the American mechanic confuse each other with their very different approaches to their common language.
Tristram Coffin, as the treacherous Torrini, is given high billing but has relatively little screen time; however, he handles his interactions with the unsuspecting heroes with the same slickness and smoothness he displayed in his similar part in Spy Smasher. Distinguished Herbert Rawlinson is killed off far too early as Major Reynolds, another expedition member, while the enjoyably hammy John Davidson has a much larger role as Lobar, the fanatical Tuareg sub-chief. Davidson rolls out each line in his inimitably resonant voice and manages to look positively pop-eyed with rage at times, particularly when defying the recovered Professor Gordon as the latter vainly tries to exercise his old authority over the Tuaregs.
Kenne Duncan has a good role as Nyoka’s tough and loyal follower Abou, while George Lewis is noticeably sinister in his small role as Cassib’s lieutenant Batan. George Renavent is enjoyably hammy in his few scenes as Vultura’s oily major-domo, Forrest Taylor pops up as a translator in Chapter Fourteen, John Bagni plays another one of Nyoka’s Bedouin friends, and John Bleifer has a brief but vivid turn as a villainous Arab street merchant in the first chapter. Jay Silverheels, star Clayton Moore’s eventual companion on the Lone Ranger show, is frequently credited as playing one of the Tuaregs, but I’ve never been able to spot him under the tribe’s burnouses and face-paint.
Ace the Wonder Dog, who also played Devil in Columbia’s The Phantom, adds a nice touch to the serial as Nyoka’s faithful dog Fang, going through some clever paces as he assists the heroine–particularly in Chapter One, when he tips over a basket, barks at two Arab guards, and then ducks inside the basket while the guards run past. Vultura’s gorilla Satan, played as an unruly and barely controllable beast by Emil Van Horn, also brings additional color to the proceedings; Van Horn’s rowdy anthropoid antics are great fun to watch.
Just as William Witney’s Spy Smasher–made the same year–represented the acme of Republic’s crime-fighting serials, so does Witney’s Perils of Nyoka represent the acme of Republic’s far-flung adventure serials. Later chapterplays like Secret Service in Darkest Africa or The Tiger Woman would try to recapture some of Perils of Nyoka’s glory, but few of them could match Nyoka’s large and interesting cast of players or its varied assortment of action scenes–and none of them boasted a story that could compete with the appeal of Nyoka‘s archetypal but enthralling treasure hunt.
This is Bunny (aka Bungee) our Maltese Puppy.... and the wife ... I cannot take credit for the idea behind this image but I loved the original so much I thought I would give it a go and try to take a similar shot, I must credit the original I spotted on 500px taken by photographer Dave Brownlee. see here 500px.com/photo/446975.
more of Daves work here www.davebrownlee.com/
Lead Foot - Cobbler's shoe form (sorry...it's actually cast iron not lead), machined stainless steel wheels, RC engine, conduit fitting, propane torch tip, carburetor float, lamp switch, jig clamps and typewriter parts. one foot long (of course!), 7" wide, 4" tall.
Installed in 1949, the Mrs. A. B. Wright stained glass window is a tribute to the sacrifice, courage and faith of the women who fought in both the Great War (1914 - 1918) and the Second World War (1939 - 1945). The window was designed by Brooks, Robinson and Company Glass Merchants. Looking out onto Barkley Street, the stained glass window features Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane, whilst his disciples sleep. On the brow of the hill above the sleeping disciples, soldiers come to lead Jesus away before his crucifixion. Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem which is noted in both the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark. The name Gethsemane derives from Aramiac word for "oil", as is most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before Jesus' crucifixion.. The window features an angel at the bottom of each pane holding a scroll. One says: "Not as I will" whilst the other says: "But as thou wilt" which is taken from the Book of Matthew. The window's octofoil features an angel with a scroll bearing the words: "Unitas Fratrum" which translates from the Latin to mean "united brotherhood", "unity of brothers" or "united brethren". The palate of this window is quite dark, as befits the time before dawn which is depicted. However, dark or not, the colours are are nonetheless still very beautiful, especially the blues that are used which are rich.
Built on the crest of a hill in a prominent position overlooking St Kilda and the bay is the grand St Kilda Presbyterian Church.
The St Kilda Presbyterian Church's interior is cool, spacious and lofty, with high ceilings of tongue and groove boards laid diagonally, and a large apse whose ceiling was once painted with golden star stenciling. The bluestone walls are so thick that the sounds of the busy intersection of Barkley Street and Alma Road barely permeate the church's interior, and it is easy to forget that you are in such a noisy inner Melbourne suburb. The cedar pews of the church are divided by two grand aisles which feature tall cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals. At the rear of the building towards Alma Road there are twin porches and a narthex with a staircase that leads to the rear gallery where the choir sang from. It apparently once housed an organ by William Anderson, but the space today is used as an office and Bible study area. The current impressive Fincham and Hobday organ from 1892 sits in the north-east corner of the church. It cost £1030.00 to acquire and install. The church is flooded with light, even on an overcast day with a powerful thunder storm brewing (as the weather was on my visit). The reason for such light is because of the very large Gothic windows, many of which are filled with quarry glass by Ferguson and Urie featuring geometric tracery with coloured borders. The church also features stained glass windows designed by Ferguson and Urie, British stained glass artist Ernest Richard Suffling, Brooks, Robinson and Company Glass Merchants, Mathieson and Gibson of Melbourne and one by Australian stained glass artist Napier Waller.
Opened in 1886, the St Kilda Presbyterian church was designed by the architects firm of Wilson and Beswicke, a business founded in 1881 by Ralph Wilson and John Beswicke (1847 - 1925) when they became partners for a short period. The church is constructed of bluestone with freestone dressings and designed in typical Victorian Gothic style. The foundation stone, which may be found on the Alma Road facade, was laid by the Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Barkly on 27 January. When it was built, the St Kilda Presbyterian Church was surrounded by large properties with grand mansions built upon them, so the congregation were largely very affluent and wished for a place of worship that reflected its stature not only in location atop a hill, but in size and grandeur.
The exterior facades of the church on Barkley Street and Alma Road are dominated by a magnificent tower topped by an imposing tower. The location of the church and the height of the tower made the spire a landmark for mariners sailing into Melbourne's port. The tower features corner pinnacles and round spaces for the insertion of a clock, which never took place. Common Victorian Gothic architectural features of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church include complex bar tracery over the windows, wall buttresses which identify structural bays, gabled roof vents, parapeted gables and excellent stone masonry across the entire structure.
I am very grateful to the Reverend Paul Lee for allowing me the opportunity to photograph the interior of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church so extensively.
The architects Wilson and Beswicke were also responsible for the Brighton, Dandenong, Essendon, Hawthorn and Malvern Town Halls and the Brisbane Wesleyan Church on the corner of Albert and Ann Streets. They also designed shops in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Auburn and Fitzroy. They also designed several individual houses, including "Tudor House" in Williamstown, "Tudor Lodge" in Hawthorn and "Rotha" in Hawthorn, the latter of which is where John Beswicke lived.
Brooks, Robinson and Company first opened their doors on Elizabeth Street in Melbourne in 1854 as importers of window and table glass and also specialised in interior decorating supplies. Once established the company moved into glazing and were commonly contracted to do shopfronts around inner Melbourne. In the 1880s they commenced producing stained glass on a small scale. Their first big opportunity occurred in the 1890s when they were engaged to install Melbourne's St Paul's Cathedral's stained-glass windows. Their notoriety grew and as a result their stained glass studio flourished, particularly after the closure of their main competitor, Ferguson and Urie. They dominated the stained glass market in Melbourne in the early 20th Century, and many Australian glass artists of worked in their studio. Their work may be found in the Princess Theatre on Melbourne's Spring Street, in St John's Church in Toorak, and throughout churches in Melbourne. Brooks, Robinson and Company was taken over by Email Pty Ltd in 1963, and as a result they closed their stained glass studio.
I said there was going to be a second one. The first was '49 Fordish, while this one is '49 Mercuryish. What do you think?
I love this Eden, she's so sweet and pretty!!
Eden is wearing the Touch of Frost Eugenia's dress, Splendid Jordan necklace, Haute Societe Vero's shoes and her sister's purse. :)
TJCA's Jonathan Hargro making a lead block for Bill Lay during the first half of the Pine Lake Prep football game. Thomas Jefferson won the Southern Piedmont Conference game 14 to 0.
Beim Bleigießen haben wir Darth Vader gegossen. Was will uns das Schicksal damit sagen?
Lead pouring...and the result was Darth Vader! What does this mean?
The long railings provided an impression as if we are walking to the lighthouse. The shadows and light suggests a pattern like visual play as your eyes are being lead to the subject.
Mackinaw City Lighthouse
MI, USA
for the D40/x & D60 challenge 20 'lead in lines'.
thanks to chris at aintree fire station for helping me out on this one.
ཞ་བསྐོར་བ། Circling Lead
Skal bzang tshe brtan
This short film focuses on presenting a ritual to eliminate a child's fear that might be caused by fearing animals, humans, sprites, demons - anything visible or invisible.
Filmed in Chu ring (Qurang) Village, Thang dkar ma (Tanggemu) Town, Gser chen (Gonghe) County, Mtsho lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, PR China.
A ritual conductor extracts lead from a bullet that ideally killed an animal, however, lead might also be extracted from a motorcycle battery. The conductor melts the lead with butter in a ladle. Once melted, the conductor holds the ladle of flaming lead and to circles above the head of the child while chanting, “Appear a dog if they feared a dog. Appear a livestock if they feared some livestock. Appear a human figure if they fear a human. Evil demon or sprite appear that induced fear.”
This is done three times. Each time after pouring the liquid lead into a bowl of cold water, the now solid lead is touched to the chest (heart) of the child and head. The conductor and others examine the lead and speculate what it resembles to learn the cause of the fear. Finally, after three times, the lead is melted again with butter in the ladle. The lead is then made into a round shape that the child wears with other amulets to protect the child from fear.
After this ritual, the child who was afraid and cried constantly became tranquil, and slept soundly.
ཞ་བསྐོར་བ།
བརྙན་ཐུང་འདིའི་ནང་དུ་གཙོ་བོ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་གཟིགས་མཁན་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ཞ་ཅི་ལྟར་བསྐོར་བ་དང་ཅི་ཞིག་ལ་སྐྲག་པ་བཅས་མགོ་སྔ་ཁ་ཚང་པ་ཞིག་བརྙན་ལ་ཕབ་ཡོད། འདིར་སྐྲག་སའི་རྒྱུ་མང་ལ། དཔེར་ན། རླུང་། མི་ག་གེ་མོ། ཟོག དངོས་བོ་ག་གེ་མོ། ཡང་ན་གདོན་དང་ཐ་ཐེའུ་འགའ་འགོང་ལ་སོགས།
བརྙན་འདི་ཕབ་ལེན་བྱེད་སའི་ས་ཆ། མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་གུང་ཧོ་རྫོང་ཐང་དཀར་མ་གྲོང་བརྡལ་ཆུ་རིང་སྡེ་བ་ནས།
ལུགས་སྲོལ་ལྟར་ན། ཞ་བསྐོར་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཞ་ཆེས་བཟང་བ་ནི་རི་དྭགས་བསད་པའི་མདའ་ལས་ཐོན་པའི་ཞ་དེ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཡང་ན་འཕྲུལ་རྟའི་གློག་གསོག་ཡོ་བྱད་དེ་ལས་ཞ་མར་བླུགས་ན་ཡང་ཆོག དེ་ནས་ཞ་བསྐོར་མཁན་གྱིས་ཞ་དེ་ལྕགས་ཐོམ་ནང་དུ་མར་ལོ་ཉུང་ཙམ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་མེ་ལ་བཞུ་དགོས། བཞུས་ནས་མེ་འབར་ཚེ་ཞ་བསྐོར་མཁན་གྱིས་ཁྱེར་དེ་བྱིས་པའི་གམ་དུ་སོང་ནས། བྱིས་པའི་མགོ་ཐོག་ནས་བསྐོར་ཞོར་འདི་ལྟར་བཤད་དགོས། “ད་མྱི་ལ་སྐྲག་ན་མྱི་ཕོབ། ཁྱི་ལ་སྐྲག་ན་ཁྱི་ཕོབ། ཟོག་ལ་སྐྲག་ན། བཙག་སེར་བུ། རླུང་ལ་སྐྲག་ན། ཐ་ཐུའུ་འགའ་འགོང་། ཅི་ཞིག་ལ་སྐྲག་ན་ཅི་ཞིག་ཕོབ།”
འདི་ལྟར་ཞ་ཐེངས་གསུམ་ལ་བཞུས་ནས་ཐེངས་གསུམ་ལ་བསྐོར་དགོས། ཐེངས་རེར་བསྐོར་ཐེངས་རེ། ཞ་ཆུ་འཁྱགས་པའི་ནང་བང་རྗེས་བྱིས་པའི་སྙིང་ཁ་དང་མགོ་ལ་བཞག་ཚར་རྗེས། བབས་ཡོད་པའི་ཞ་ཡི་ཚུགས་ཀར་བལྟོས་ན་ཆོག དེ་ནས་སྐྲག་ས་གང་ཡིན་པ་ལ་རྟགས་དཔྱད་དང་མཚམས་ལེར་སྐྲག་ས་གང་ཡིན་པ་ཤེས་ཡང་ཐུབ། འདི་ལྟར་ཞ་ཐེངས་གསུམ་ལ་བསྐོར་ཚར་རྗེས། ཞ་དེ་ཡང་བསྐྱར་བཞུས་ནས་གོར་གོར་ཡི་བཟོ་ལྟ་བཟོས་ནས་བྱིས་པའི་སྐེ་ལ་འདོགས་དགོས། འདི་ལྟར་བྱས་ན་བྱིས་པ་ལ་སྐྲག་པ་དང་དངངས་པའི་འཇིགས་པ་ཇེ་ཉུང་དུ་བུད་འགྲོ།
ནམ་རྒྱུན་ཞ་བསྐོར་པས་རྗེས་སུ། བྱིས་པ་དོན་མེད་དུ་མི་སྐྲག་པ་དང་གཉིད་ཡང་སྐྱིད་པོ་ལོག་ཐུབ།
转铅治恐
这部短片主要阐述了一种传统的仪式去降低和制止孩子的恐惧。恐惧大多是因为孩子受了外界影响。比如说，孩子被某种动物, 某个人，风，妖魔鬼怪看得见或看不见的。
拍摄地：青海省海南州藏族自治州共和县塘格木镇曲让村
按照传统方式，仪式主持者从一个射死动物的子弹里提取铅，这是视为最好的铅。但是现在呢，铅可以从摩托电瓶里提取出来。然后仪式主持者将铅和少量的黄油放在一个铁勺里加热，当铅开始融化，起火时将铁勺拿到受惊的孩子。在受惊了的孩子头上转几圈。此时此刻，仪式主持者要念，“若是怕了狗，狗现形！若是怕了牲畜，牲畜现形！若是怕了人，人现形！妖魔鬼怪怕了什么，什么现形！“
转铅要转三次。每次把融化了的铅倒入冷水碗里，然后将凉的铅放在孩子的胸部（心上），再到头上。其次，其他人可以看铅的形状，去推测，断定是什么到底惊吓了孩子。最后，三次转完后，再将铅与少量黄油融化，然后把铅做出圆形扎出一个小小的孔，再让孩子与护身符一起戴在身上。
通常仪式举行完，受到惊吓的孩子不会大哭大叫，反而睡得也很稳。
I love this Eden, she's so sweet and pretty!!
Eden is wearing the Touch of Frost Eugenia's dress, Splendid Jordan necklace, Haute Societe Vero's shoes and her sister's purse. :)
lead me my valiant God, from darkness to light.
Gangaikondacholapuram, Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu. [Dec-21,2009]
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