In shaving the fire-hair they must make an offering for the spirit of the place according to custom. The hair that is shaved of is placed in a banana-leaf container with a Caladium or lotus leaf laid in the bottom; sometimes flowers are mixed in. In cases where things are done well, the whole is placed in turn on a stand. Then it is taken and floated on low water, or is taken away and thrown whichever is convenient. The person who takes it and floats it must say, "We ask for a life of coolness and happiness like the sacred Ganges," or something else of this sort.