The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections From History, Biography ... 2
The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections From History, Biography ... 2
W William Oxberry
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These vagabonds, not satisfied with what the old woman bestowed in charity, armed themselves, and, making predatory excursions into the country, returned with spoil to the house of their patroness^ where they mixed intemperance and riot with devotion. . The people, op- pressed by these sanctified robbers, rose upon them, but they were defeated with great slaughter. Repeated disasters of the same kind were at last attributed to the power of enchantment. This ridi- culous opinion gaining ground, ...fear became predomi- nant in the opponents of the fakirs. The banditti, acquiring confidence from their success, burnt and de- stroyed the country for many leagues, and surrounded the castle of the pretended enchantress with a desert. The raja marched a£;ainst them with his native troops, but was defeated 5 the collectors of the imperial revenue attacked them, but they were forced to give way. A report prevailed, and was eagerly believed by the mul- titude, that, on a certain day of the moon, the old lady used to cook, in the scull of an enemy, a mess composed of owls, bats, snakes, lizards, human fiesh, and other horrid ingredients, which she distributed to her fol- lowers.
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