Storia do Mogor 266.1.1

266.1.1

husband, called Nicolao Borges, a young man of twenty, married to a daughter of Francisco de Souza. This Suzana Borges, without her husband's knowledge, paid money every month to a diviner or sorcerer to obtain information on any subject she wanted, and give her such advice as was necessary. Ordinarily all women in Agrah and Dihli more or less make use of the same art, and are of much the same sort. The mother of the young man wanted to know how many years her son's wife would live, so she asked the sorcerer. He replied that if some treatment were not speedily applied, she had not long to live. The mother asked him what was the course to be taken, when he pledged his word that he would so act that the daughter would survive for many years. But the condition was that the necessary expenses were provided for the rites that must be performed. To meet these she sent an ornament of gold, weighing fifty Venetians, to be melted. She also gave a band of silver, her gold rings, a bow and a small arrow of silver [257], a gold chain, various kinds of silk and white cotton cloth, with fifty rupees for expenses. All this was given as a present to the sorcerer, who carried off the whole to his house.