Each Lahu housc has an altar at which the jws-sticks and
beeswax candles are burned " to please and humor the guardian good
spirits ". At the head of the village, a nat house is built, called a
'' Kha-shuh " at which watcr and rice is offered on the 8th day of thc
waxing, and on the 8th day of thc waning moons