[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 265.29.5 # Storia do Mogor 265.29.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 265.29.5 - **Language:** English ### [265.29.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29.5) A young man had gone to buy fish from an old woman of this sort, and disagreeing about the price, he took it by force. After he had eaten it his stomach swelled, and he had acute pain which medicine did not cure. While he was in this condition they remarked that his breath smelt of stale fish, and his bowels discharged rotten fish. By these signs they recognised that it was some sorcery. Finding no cure for this, he died, and on opening his bowels they found a live fish. Many a time I have seen in cities and in camps, when there has been a robbery, that to recover what had been lost they went to sorcerers. These men take a brass bowl, and put into it some grains of uncooked rice and some flowers over which an incantation has been recited. Then they take another bowl of the same metal, and beating with a short stick, they say some words softly, and the first bowl with the flowers begins to move of itself very slowly. At last it arrives at the place where the thing lost is lying. The thief, seeing the crowd and hearing the sound of the basin, runs off, abandoning everything. The owner, after detailing the marks of his property, carries it away, while the rest of the fugitive's goods are seized by the police. - [Previous: 265.29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29.4) - [Next: 265.29.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29.6) - [Up: 265.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.29.5) · Pramāṇa