..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
1N A TRANCE
This man, my friend, went and saw the Indian, who told him to return at twelve the next day. He went before twelve, as he was anxious to hear. He gazed through a hole into the hut, and saw the man sleeping. He entered the hut--the door was fastened with string--and touched him to waken him. The man was as if dead. He touched him again, but there was no response; he was exactly as if he were dead and his face was the face of a corpse. My friend was frightened and fled away, fearing that if he were found there with a dead man, people might think he had killed him. There passed two days anti nothing was said, and he returned to the hut. We found the man alive and sitting there. He was delighted and saluted him. The Indian asked him to sit, bringing chairs, and appeared to be perfectly well, as your honor would have seen, had you been there!
The Indian asked him, "Why did you not come before."
The man replied, "l came on Thursday and thought you were dead and I went back."
The Indian said, "When you came, I was not here: my soul was with your children and people."
He said, "Good! Did you see my relations!"
Said the Indian, "My body was empty, only my blood worked. Yes, I saw your son and I saw your wife."
He asked, "In what place were they!"
Said the Indian, "In Paris, in such and such a street and such and such a number."
The man did not know whether this was truth or lies, and he sent a cable to the address. At the time he was in Bombay. An answer came back, "We are well and we are returning on such and such a date."
And his relatives rode in a ship and returned, and h saw them, and the man said (to himself) "Truth or not truth, how could such a thing be!" and he asked his wife, "Did a faqir come to you?"
She replied, "Yes, a faqir entered our house one day and we rose to send him away. He entered and he departed again." These are Indians of the Ram-Ram sect.
Narrator: Hirmiz bar Anhar
