Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 153
35 ABSURD CUSToMS T he thoughts and beliefs of the people of Arabia were also extremely peculiar and again were stranger than anywhere else in the world. For example, in a year that there would be no rain, they would take a few cows, attach some sticks to their tails and set the sticks on fire. Then they would take them to the top of a hill and upon arriving there they would pray to their idols for rain. They also believed that every person has a snake living in their stomach. When the snake would bite the person’s ribs and liver it would make the person hungry! If a person suffered psychological problems they would say that a filthy Jinn has entered that person. The treatment for