Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon - Interceders paid to pray and offer water at the corners of the days of the week, propitiating your birthday Gnat. Tin gallon cans, carried in yokes, water splashed out with a hand bowl unceremoniously. The Saturday Gnat bodes especially ill and requires most atonement. Tin Tuns tell us how if a child is born on that day, evil will most likely fall upon him. Her cousin who, newly married and happily in love, had her first child born on a Saturday. Dismay and immediate rituals of propitiation of the Gnats. But baby soon falls very ill. More special observances and child recovers, but desolate parents foreseeing only more dangers ahead for their child, decided that they should sacrifice their happiness and separate, as the ultimate misfortune to befall a couple married, to protect the child?s future.