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He too had meant to give me merely a gentle tap, but it was with a hand only accustomed to deal with reindeer." The travellers were also witnesses of some proofs of the skill of a Tchouktchi conjurer, or chaman, who went behind a curtain, from which his audience soon heard a voice like the howl of a wild beast, accompanied by blows on a tambourine with a whale-bone.
She was full of anger; and with a bow and arrows in her hand, she sat down outside of the room, on the border of the chaman; she asked the nurse for a cup of wine, and after drinking it off, she said, 'O nurse! is that Persian who is involved in our great idol's wrath, dead, or does he yet live? The nurse answered, 'May I bear your evils! some life still remains, The princess said, 'He has now fallen in my estimation; but tell him to come out. The nurse called me; I ran forth and perceived that the princess's face glowed through anger, and had become quite red.
Such primitive journeyings are fast becoming obsolete in the India of to-day, where the railway stretches its antennae in all directions, and the horn of the motor has been heard beyond Chaman. Yet, for all their obvious discomforts, they possessed their own peculiar flavour of interest and charm.
He still seems to regard his priest as a kind of chaman, religious ceremonies as enchantments, and religion in general as witchcraft. The way in which Russia was converted to Christianity has much to do with this.
The chaman is a small garden or parterre, which is laid out before the sitting room in the interior of the women's apartments; it means in general, parterres of flowers. The original uses a much stronger expression. Literally, the poison of the halahal, as expression used to denote poison of the strongest kind.
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