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0224 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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the region. The sheikh whom I addressed looked sheep-
ish; the bystanders laughed, and some one said:—

"Oh, yes, he knows how to drive them away. There are
many here, not only in the mountains and the desert, but
in the village. Look at that man. A 'jin' struck him. Can
you heal him?"

The man referred to suffered from a large excrescence
on the side of the head above the ear. In Khotan and Yar-
kand, where the people suffer terribly from goitre and stiff
necks, it is commonly believed, so I was told, that the ill-
natured "jins" have a habit of gripping a sleeping man
around the throat, after which the neck swells with goitre.
Sometimes the "jins" vary their mischief by cuffing the side
of a man's head, causing a stiff neck.

The four Imams who died so sadly at Imamla must have
been well-to-do, to say the least. According to the sheikhs,
they cooked their rice in a golden pot, which is still pre-
served in a rickety mosque, and is used for cooking the sac-
rifices of pilgrims. The pot is so holy that whoever looks at
it is struck blind. I naturally inquired how, then, the meat
could be cooked.

"Oh," answered Kassim Sheikh, my host, "when a
sheikh becomes sixty years old, he can see the pot without
injury. Even I have never seen it."

Later, I had a conversation with the old sheikh who acts
as "chef of the golden pot," but refrained from asking ques-
tions. He looked like a man able to keep a secret.

An equally remarkable fact was brought to light when I
sought for geological information. On asking the source of
numerous cobbles and small round boulders of vesicular