MAGICIANS. 189 



CO very of stolen property, very similar to that 

 noticed in Mr Lane's work entitled ^' Modern 

 Egyptians," as related to that gentleman by 

 Mr Salt, the then Consul- General in that coun- 

 try, which he thus describes : — 



'' Mr Salt, having reason to believe that one of 

 his servants had stolen property from his house, 

 sent for a celebrated Mugliralee magician, with a 

 view to intimidate them and induce the thief to 

 confess his crime. The magician accordingly 

 came, and said that he would cause the exact 

 image of the person who had committed the theft 

 to appear to any youth not arrived at the age of 

 puberty, and requested Mr Salt to send for one. 

 Accordingly a boy was called in from the ad- 

 jacent garden, and, after certain ceremonies, he 

 described the thief and said that he knew him. 

 He then ran down into the garden and pointed 

 out the man, who at once confessed his crime." 

 Here is the magic process as described by Mr 

 Lane. ''The name of the magician was Shaikh 

 Abdool Khader-el Mughrabee, who prepared 

 for the experiment of the magic mirror, which 

 is termed darh-cl-mendel, by cutting a narrow 

 slip of paper, whereupon he wrote certain forms 

 of invocation, together with another charm by 



