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son, but the Archangel appeared and told Solomon to 

 give an account of it to God, and Solomon did as he 

 was bidden. God called the Devil and commanded 

 him to go to King Solomon. Satan went to the king, 

 but when the Ministers saw him coming, every one 

 except Solomon ran away because they were very much 

 frightened at his appearance which was hke a red 

 blanket of fire. The Devil approached the king, at the 

 same time giving sahitation, and King Solomon asked 

 liim liis name and occupation. The Devil m^de reply : 

 ' I am RihiiV-ahmar or the Jm A ngin Merah ; if I 

 enter the body of a human beijig by the right no.stril, 

 he gets the disease called gajah-gajah (hemiplegia) and 

 falls down unconscious like a dead man. If I enter by 

 the left nostril, he gets hmong ayer (dropsy) and is 

 unable to eat or drink owing to pain. If I get in by 

 the anal aperture, he suffers from piles. If I get in by 

 the orifice of the urethra, he gets tduran (any testicular 

 swelling). If I enter by the mouth, it becomes offen- 

 sive, if by the eye, it becomes bhnd : if by the tongue 

 it stiffens and prevents speech, if by the leg it palsies, 

 if by the hand it loses power. If I get in by the brain, 

 the man goes mad, and if I get in through his sMn, he 

 gets a hundred thousand diseases.' King Solomon then 

 said to the Jin of the Eed Wind : ' All that you have 

 just told me depends upon the Will of God ; you are 

 misfortune the cause of human suffering.' '* Solomon 

 played a great part in the history of Magic. Josephus 

 states m his " Antiquities of the Jews," when referring 

 to the cure of a lunatic by Eleazar : "He put a ring 

 that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by 

 Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he 

 drew out the demon through his nostrils ; and when 

 the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to 

 return mto him no more making mention of Solomon, 



