fakir-worshipers

Updated: June 2, 2025

He would obey his orders, and they theirs, and the rest was no business of his or anybody's. They put the fakir in a hut; where Juggut Khan too weary for foraging stood guard over him. When a crowd collected round the hut, and Juggut Khan applied the butt of a lighted cigarette to the tender skin between the fakir's shoulder-blades, the anxious fakir-worshipers were told that all was well.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East