When in Kalmykia Gerel often went to see folk healers, bone-setters and diviners. On one occasion she was taken to a folk healer by her mother. The reason for this was as follows. One evening when at home Gerel heard a knock on the window. When she looked at the window there was a tiny person standing there. Gerel suffered from insomnia, headaches and had seizures. Worried about her daughter’s health, Gerel’s mother took her to see an old woman, a folk healer herself who cured ill people. In fact, the mother and daughter went to see not only one but several folk healers who smeared Gerel with butter, massaged her head and ears, and used various other folk methods. Once Gerel developed a pain in her back, because she had had a nightmare involving a female spirit who had sat on Gerel and strangled her. The next day Gerel went to see a male bone-setter who advised that she goes and asks a Buddhist monk for a special ritual before sunset. Gerel and her mother went to a temple but the monks refused to perform the ritual. After hearing about their unsuccessful trip to a temple, the bone-setter gave Gerel herb pills and incenses and asked her to spread the pills around her bed. On the second night the evil spirit came back as a child to haunt Gerel. In the morning Gerel and her mother again went to the bone-setter who said that Gerel had been stressed and because of this she had a hole in her aura. On the third night Gerel saw in her dreams two men whom she begged not to touch her. The next morning the mother and daughter went to see the bone-setter again who asked them to make a dog’s head out of dough, confide everything to that head and bury it in a clean place. After that ritual Gerel recovered.