Storia do Mogor 266.2.5

266.2.5

As he had already knowledge from the sorcerer that, should the person be dressed in scarlet, the magic would not work, Rey Freire made use of the fact. Next day when the sorcerer appeared there fell on him four men clad in scarlet cloth. He was bound hand and foot, and thrown into the sea with an anchor attached to his neck. Rey Freire assumed that, having been plunged into the sea, the sorcerer had died. Five days or so afterwards the man's mother and wife came to the [governor's] gate and complained that the guards on the beach would not allow them to carry away and eat what was at the bottom of the sea. Rey Freire ordered that they should be allowed to draw out the food. When they began to pull it up, he [the sorcerer] came out. The governor sent the four men in scarlet with orders to apprehend him once more. They were to place him at the mouth of a cannon and fire it off. This was the end of the sorcerer. If he could with his eyes consume the entrails of living beings, the cannon consumed him bones and all. They say that, to this day, similar sorcerers are found in the regions of Masqat and Arabia. I was assured of the truth of this story by an ancient Portuguese called Joao Carvalho, who was very intimate with me, and he had actually been a soldier in Masqat, in addition to which the matter is notorious in India [261].