one of the number, who has been apprehended. Other ladies 

 of the Mahl (or seraglio) arc sadly alarmed, lest this wi- 

 zard, who is much with the Nizam, should pitch also upon 

 them/' 



The same author says it was once his misfortune to live in 

 Bombay, in the immediate neighbourhood of an exorciser; who 

 planted himself near his garden wall, and by the horrid yells and 

 music, the necessary accompaniments of his craft, so disturbed his 

 repose, that, failing by remonstrance and threats, he was forced 

 to apply to the police for its restoration and security. This 

 man must, from the number of his patients,have been of some note, 

 or the possessed numerous; for every full moon he was occupied the 

 whole night. It appeared that women were mostly, if not ex- 

 clusively, possessed; but, lest his appearance should seem to sanc- 

 tion the annoyance, the author did not attend, to observe his 

 noisy neighbour's exorcisms. 



Such are the practices still continued, and accredited in one 

 of the politest Mahomedan courts of India. They are more or 

 less believed and practised throughout the extensive regions of 

 Hindostan, and indeed in Persia and Arabia. Against these per- 

 sons, Him, of whom it is emphatically written, Him who maketh 

 the diviners mad, issued this solemn edict to his chosen people on 

 their entering the land of Canaan. 



" When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God 

 giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of 

 those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that 



