Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 154
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 154 such a person would be to tie either dirty clothes or smelly bones around their neck. They would believe that by doing this the un- clean spirit would leave the person’s body. Snakes were thought to be the friends of Jinn. They believed that if a snake were killed, then a Jinn would definitely take revenge. Before the Jinn could take revenge, they would quickly hide the dead snake in the ma- nure of animals. For the treatment of women whose children would die at birth, the lady would have to cross over the body of a dead man with her feet in such a manner that the body of the dead man became distorted. They believed that by doing this the ladies ill- ness would be cured. When a brave enemy would attack them, and they were not able to compete against his strength, then their women would go and sit in the middle of the battlefield and would urinate. Their belief was that by doing so, the battlefield would become flooded and the fire of the war would be put out. If a person from a particular tribe called Badaw i tribe had the good fortune to own one thousand camels (which was a huge amount of wealth in those days) they would poke out the eye of one of their camels to keep away bad luck. This would blind the camel in that eye and they would have no regard for how painful