Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 155
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 155 this would be for the camel and how it would scream with pain. When a person would gain another thousand camels, then he would poke out the other eye also, making the camel completely blind. Like this, by making one camel useless, they thought that the rest of the camels would remain safe. When someone would get a fever, he would take a rope and tie it to a tree and would believe that whoever unties this rope will catch the illness from him and that he would become cured from it. One of their most mischievous and awful superstitions was that when a person would be killed, an owl would come out of the head of the dead person (which they called H a mmah ). This owl would call out, ‘Revenge, revenge!’ throughout the woods. It would then become obligatory upon the relatives of the person that was killed, to kill the person who had killed their relative. When they managed to kill the person, then H a mmah would come out of this dead person’s head and it would fly around in desolate areas calling out in a terrifying voice ‘Revenge, revenge!’ And finally, when the relatives of the victim would kill the person who murdered their relative, an owl would come out of the head of that person and it would bellow from the top of