..A. CREATION
...B. CREATION AND THE FLOOD
...C. THE CREATION OF MAN
...D. AND E. THE FLOOD
...F. THE MANDAEAN NATION
...G. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE RED SEA STORY
#2--OF ABRAHAM AND YURBA
#3--HOW HIBIL ZIWA FETCHED RUHA FROM THE DARKNESS
#4--THE STORY OF QIQEL AND THE DEATH OF YAHYA
#5-- NEBUCHADNEZZAR`S DAUGHTER
#6--SUN STORIES
#7-- THE BRIDGE AT SHUSTER
#8-- THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER AND ADAM BUL FARAJ
#9-- HOW DANA NUK VISITED THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
#10-- THE MILLENNIUM
#11-- CONCERNING THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MADDAI AND HOW THE TURKS CAME TO TAKE IT
#12-- HOW THE MANDAI AND THEIR GANZIBRA LEFT THE MOUNTAIN FOR A BETTER COUNTRY
#13-- THE CHILD CONCEIVED ON THE 29th NIGHT OF THE MOON
#14-- THE KANSHI UZAHLA
#15-- THE HAUNTINGS
#16-- THE PLAGUE IN SHUSTER
#17-- THE STONE-THROWING
#18-- THE KAFTAR
#19-- BIBI`S SONS AND THEIR STRANGE ADVENTURE
#20-- SHAIKH ZIBID
#21-- OF BEHOLDING EVENTS IN TRANCE
#22-- HOW EVIL SPIRITS ABUSE THE DEAD, ETC.
#23-- MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM DEATH, ETC.
#24-- OF THE POWER T0 SEE SPIRITS
#25-- THE SIMURGH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF RUSTAM AND HIS SON
#26-- HIRMIZ SHAH
#27--THE MAN WHO SOUGHT TO SEE SIN THE MOON
#28-- THE SIMURGH AND HIRMIZ SHAH
That night when they were asleep and the world was dark, stones were again thrown on them. All cried out in alarm, men, women, and children. Houses with high wails surrounded them, so that stones could not have been flung in from the street. They concluded that the stones must have come from the lote-tree. They called in Shaikh Joda and said to him, "Can you exorcise this so that it departs from amongst us?"
Shaikh Joda advised them to take a palm-branch and cut it with a knife near the tree, for when evil spirits see iron, they fear and depart. They did this, but it was of no avail. The flinging of stones increased. They hid and watched, but never saw any cause of it.
Now my father had a writing, a charm which he used to read over salt for exorcism, and with it he exorcised evil enchanted places such as this, for he was a Nasurai. I went and told them, "l will read my father's charm over salt and bring it and sprinkle it for you."
In the night I rose and went into the river wearing and read the charm over salt; then I sprinkled in their place all round the tree. I returned to my own house and slept with my family on the terrace (tarma) for it was summer. There was a room built between our house and Zahrun's (the narrator's brother), and it was entered from below: there was no stairway from the roof to it, or means of reaching the roof, for the walls were high and smooth and no animal could leap on to it. We had a habit of throwing rubbish on to the roof of this room so that it might be out of the way.
And from this roof that night it pelted bottles and old rags and shoes and rubbish! We rose and fled into Shaikh Joda's house, where they laughed at us, saying, "Why did you not sprinkle the salt in your own courtyard, then you would not have been troubled!" We could sleep no more that night, but read spells and brought more salt and sprinkled it about our place.
There is a certain Subbi of the name of Miadi son of Baroni, a very ancient man. His age at that time was about one hundred and thirty years, and yet he was strong, eating, seeing, and hearing well-a good old age! His house was distant from ours by about twenty hosh (houses). They began to stone him and his family as they had stoned us. A stone struck his wife's shoulder and some stones fell on his son. He came to us and said, "Give us salt and come and sprinkle it in our house", for all knew about my father's spell, and how he used to bless salt far exorcism, after purification in the river, wearing his rasta and his skandola. Salt so blessed is good against satans, evil spirits, mikrobat, and all wicked creatures.
When my people heard the request they said to me, "Do not give him salt! The last time you gave it, the spirits were angry and pelted us! Do not give it!"
I refused him the salt. Then he and his family fled from his house, leaving it empty, taking their furniture and gear away; and none, Islam or Subba, dared enter it. But they let the woodshed to a Mosulawi, who slept there to take care of his wood. The first night he slept there it rained stones and wood on him all night, falling, not so as to injure him, but so as to affright him. He was constantly stoned, day and night, and at last came to the Subba, crying out, "Dakhil (Protection!) O Subba, what is this? What is wrong with your house?" They soothed him saying, "Why are you afraid? You are a man, be not afraid of a few failing stones! There is nothing wrong with the house!"
He went back and sat in the courtyard. It was night and the moon was full and the weather was hot. He cooked his food, rice, meat, and so forth, with his own hand, and sat to eat his meal in the open. It was dark in the courtyard and as he sat, he saw a white cat before him. It became big and the man said to himself, "Shinu hai? What can be!" He looked, and it became as big as a dog. His heart began to fear. It became very tail and he could endure it no longer but began to shriek, "Come to me! Dakhil! Dakhil!" The Subba sleeping on the roofs around cried out to him, "Fear not, fear not"' When he heard their voices he seized courage to move, and lied forth to the neighbors, trembling and mad with fright. The Subba tried to calm him, saying, "Why are you thus?" while he said, "What is it in the Subbi's house)? Why did the they not tell me?"
In the morning he got a man to go to the woodshed and take out his wood and he sold it all cheap]y. He would not return himself, for he was afraid of the place. After that, he left Amarah and went back to his wilayat. And from that time, if people in Mosul, to plague him, called after him, "The tantal has come!" he trembled and gazed behind him and feared.
Yes, that stone-throwing was not the work of a man, mu shoghl admi!
..A. CREATION
...B. CREATION AND THE FLOOD
...C. THE CREATION OF MAN
...D. AND E. THE FLOOD
...F. THE MANDAEAN NATION
...G. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE RED SEA STORY
#2--OF ABRAHAM AND YURBA
#3--HOW HIBIL ZIWA FETCHED RUHA FROM THE DARKNESS
#4--THE STORY OF QIQEL AND THE DEATH OF YAHYA
#5-- NEBUCHADNEZZAR`S DAUGHTER
#6--SUN STORIES
#7-- THE BRIDGE AT SHUSTER
#8-- THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER AND ADAM BUL FARAJ
#9-- HOW DANA NUK VISITED THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
#10-- THE MILLENNIUM
#11-- CONCERNING THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MADDAI AND HOW THE TURKS CAME TO TAKE IT
#12-- HOW THE MANDAI AND THEIR GANZIBRA LEFT THE MOUNTAIN FOR A BETTER COUNTRY
#13-- THE CHILD CONCEIVED ON THE 29th NIGHT OF THE MOON
#14-- THE KANSHI UZAHLA
#15-- THE HAUNTINGS
#16-- THE PLAGUE IN SHUSTER
#17-- THE STONE-THROWING
#18-- THE KAFTAR
#19-- BIBI`S SONS AND THEIR STRANGE ADVENTURE
#20-- SHAIKH ZIBID
#21-- OF BEHOLDING EVENTS IN TRANCE
#22-- HOW EVIL SPIRITS ABUSE THE DEAD, ETC.
#23-- MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM DEATH, ETC.
#24-- OF THE POWER T0 SEE SPIRITS
#25-- THE SIMURGH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF RUSTAM AND HIS SON
#26-- HIRMIZ SHAH
#27--THE MAN WHO SOUGHT TO SEE SIN THE MOON
#28-- THE SIMURGH AND HIRMIZ SHAH
Narrator: Hirmiz bar Anhar
