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They claim supernatural powers to confer good and invoke evil, and the curse of a fakir is the last misfortune that an honest Hindu cares to bring upon himself, for it means a failure of his harvests, the death of his cattle by disease, sickness in his family and bad luck in everything that he undertakes.
You can sleep in it too." "Sleep with a fakir? I? Allah! I am a Rajput, sahib! A sergeant of the Rajput Horse, retired!" "I wouldn't want to sleep with him myself!" admitted Brown. "Come and look at him. You can smell him from here, but the sight of him's the real thing!" The Rajput swaggered up beside Brown, after loosening his horse's girths and lifting the saddle for a moment.
"I know something what you've said, what Mrs. Cole at the Mountain House told me. She's Mrs. Paula Markham " his mind went on, "the great fakir of the spook doctors," but his lips stifled the phrase and said after a pause, "the great medium." "I don't like to hear her called that," said Annette. "In spite of what I'm going to tell you, I never saw but once the thing they call a medium.
His assertion is based on personal acquaintance with Madari Yogis and Fakirs, and an actual experiment made with a Mohammedan Fakir who was immune to the bites of scorpions provided by the writer. The animals were from five to seven inches long and had lobster-like claws. Each bite drew blood, but the Fakir was none the worse.
The moon is full to-night. The Great Fakir will come out of the hills in his zeal and lead the tribes himself. Guard the east!" Raymond drew a sharp breath. But Carlyon's hand on his shoulder silenced the astounded question on his lips. "We have got to protect the women," Carlyon said. "Relief will come at dawn." All through the day quiet reigned.
Complimentary copies were sent to the "Sipah Salar" and other Afghan notabilities, and the fame of the Hadda Mullah was known throughout the land. Besides increasing his influence, his literary success stimulated his efforts. While the Mad Fakir was rousing Swat and Buner, this powerful priest incited the Mohmands.
The FAKIR examined them with ominous admiration. Soon they were missing! "'Afzal, please return my prized heirloom! Babu was nearly in tears. "The Mohammedan was stoically silent for awhile, then said, 'You have five hundred rupees in an iron safe. Bring them to me, and I will tell you where to locate your timepiece. "The distraught Babu left immediately for his home.
You are not altogether a fakir," she said softly. "I'd no business. I'm sorry ..." he began, answering his own swift compunction, not her remark. "I'm not unless you really mean you are?" Faint raillery gleamed in her eyes. "You did rather overwhelmingly take things for granted. But still ... after that...." "Yes after that ... if you really mean it?" "Well ... what do you think?"
The Hindoos brought a fresh supply of food for the holy man expiating his sin in so strange a way, and then left the fakir to his meditation and his rest. Half an hour later the Warreners were on their way, and before morning congratulated themselves upon having done more than half of the two hundred and eighty miles which separate Lucknow from Delhi.
"However, many of the stories that we heard could not be explained on these grounds, and the fakir and his doings were often talked over at mess, some of the officers scoffing at the whole business, others maintaining that some of these fakirs had, in some way or another, the power of foretelling the future, citing many well authenticated anecdotes upon the subject.
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