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and their sons will certainly go to Jouel, and their wives and daughters 
also appear to have a pretty good chance, as also the Medchera, who 
are the puggees’ pupils. In fact, all learned men are considered more 
likely to he rewarded in the next world than the ignorant. If a 
man has accidentally killed a puggee, he is supposed to inherit the 
priest’s spirit, and will therefore go to Jouel. If a man is killed in 
battle, or if killed or murdered by a For, he will go to Jouel, and be 
provided with a white horse. If any one murders a man, the 
murderer inherits his spirit, and has to bear the consequences of the 
murdered man’s actions in the next world. This is, however, not 
the case if one man kills another accidentally. The priests and 
those who have been taught by them are influenced by a strong de- 
sire to be received by Molu when they die, and are greatly afraid of 
the punishments meted out in Uddu. The unlearned people do not 
think much about an after life, and are far more influenced by the 
fear of having their hands cut off if they steal, or their lips if they 
are guilty of falsehood. There are still a few stone huts in existence, 
which were devoted to the worship of Molu before Mohammedanism 
was introduced, and the people still reverence them. Drunkenness 
is not considered to be a sin, nor is want of hospitality to strangers 
or unkindness to human beings thought a mortal sin, if I may use 
the expression ; but ill-treatment of tame animals is said to be very 
wicked, as they have to suffer without being able to defend them- 
selves or to retaliate. Animals, however, are not believed to have 
souls ; when they die there is an end of them. 
Animals are not held sacred, but there is one sacred bird ; this 
bird is often seen sitting on the trees near water. When a 
puggee notices one of them in this position, he calls out to it “ Te 
bate salewate” ('?), at which the bird dives into the water, returns to 
its perch, and shakes the water from its wings. The priest runs 
underneath, in the hope of this water dropping upon him, as it is 
supposed to contain the spirit of Molu. 
The Fors have another very strong belief, which has been un- 
affected by the Mohammedan religion, that a great spirit lives on 
the summit of Gebel Marah. They do not worship him, but they 
believe he has an innumerable army of spirit servants, zittan, who 
possess extraordinary powers. A limited number of magicians are 
supposed to stand in intimate relation to this great mountain spirit, 
