THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 7

THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.

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visiles leaped into the air. 'Hie lio - I rinie sight fascinated. Again iht y circled the brazier, and riaight -..! | their eagerness to .-er-tire the blazing prizes. Back they whirled, each im. i with a fiery coal in his hand, l.augl:ing demoniacally ttiey stooped and stroked their brown legs with Cue blazing coal, then thrust it beneai.ii the arm and held it there, crushed into the armpit. Never for a moment e ased the mad whirling dance. The’

leaping, crazy steps became more frenzied. '1 hey stuck daggers a iuli length through the napes of- thennecks. they stabbed and slashed their bodies ; thrust pins through their eyes and ears, and puleld down’ their eyelids over their cheeks and plane >1 them there, until tiiey looked like v. iirlhig pincushions. On and on — madder and madder—until noise and, dance and room rc<=mcd but a phartarm. Arabs carrying live .babies w.-ho g: with inscrutable, dark eyes at the dancers. The wiiirlers seized tl:.> ‘ babies and laid them on the foo . rminw-uvring around them in an cost-; a;y of madness. No baby uttered ai ... und. Presently the- fanatics dan--' nncn the infants, their broirn i’<’i e 'i.dung in." rhe soft little stomachs. 1 Yet to. or" baby cried.' Two boil’ ; and the l:>'t ■ the dozen dancers had 1 sunk vxhau-led. to be curried or drag- : <r< d out to th<’ rcc.ni where they we;-" K: be restored, or have their eyes closed in death. Tile babies, crowing ai’d laughing, without sign of harm, were. taken away. | Morange says the only cy;>!suutiii'~» is that by auto-suggestion the fa:---sties raise themselves shove p.-ii:: 1 “Everyone knows that the real seal cf pin is the mind. If the mind av r.y in a ■ isit. or if it refuses to.:•<■-. cognise pain, there is no mtr-i. Tha, ■- the secret.’’