Storia do Mogor 265.29.1

265.29.1

Some months had passed, and news came of the husband's death ; he had been drowned. Thus was borne out what the old woman had said, and she earned much money through her renown as a diviner, and there was no lack of well-placed ladies who had recourse to her to find out their objects. In Madras was a rich widow who became anxious to know whom she would marry; so she sent for one of these old women, gave her a reward, and commanded her to perform her rites in her presence. For this purpose the old woman sent to fetch for her a clear glass phial, and breaking some eggs, poured them into it. The old woman prayed into the mouth of this bottle, and the eggs formed into a human shape with some letters showing the name of the person who was to become the widow's spouse. In those regions there was none who bore such a name. After some months there appeared a man who bore the name announced by the phial, and when the widow saw him, she declared he resembled him that she had seen, and she married him. I knew this man, and had many a talk with him.