According to Charles Godfrey Leland in his 1874 book English Gipsies and Their language, several different methods of practicing hokkani boro exist. In one of them, a con artist gives a client a spell, which is believed to make money double magically overnight. After the client sleeps on a bundle of money notes, the con artist returns and the money has seemingly doubled.
According to Charles Godfrey Leland in his 1874 book English Gipsies and Their language, various methods for performing hokkani boro are described. One such method involves a confidence artist giving a client an illusion, which is thought to cause the money to double magically overnight. The client then rests on a pile of cash, after which the scammer returns and the money appears to have doubled.