[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) › 266.3.2 # Storia do Mogor 266.3.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 266.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [266.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3.2) During the time I was in Hindustan (Northern India) there was a woman who dwelt near the city \[262\] of Cochin, in the territory of a Hindu prince. Her name was Lunna ; she was an Indian, and a great magician or sorcerer. This woman made her living by the sale of devil-dolls in the shape of rats, rings, jewels, buttons, flowers, et cetera. Within them were enclosed the demons, who did as she told them. There was a young man who wanted to obtain illicit possession of an honourable woman. Not having money enough to buy one of these troubling demon-dolls, he had recourse to Lunna to acquire something from her. She directed him to bring a hair from the head of the woman that he coveted. The youth took steps through a servant girl of the woman, who made a fool of him by giving him the hair out of a sieve. The amorous swain carried off the hair to Lunna, who ordered him to remain in his house at night, when the woman would come to his room in search of him. At night, when the youth was in his room waiting for the woman, behold suddenly a sieve appeared and began to mount on him and worry him, without his being able to get rid of it. The youth, on finding himself thus pursued, had recourse to Lunna, the sieve following him. She acted so that he was delivered, and he thereby discovered the trick played on him by the negress. - [Previous: 266.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3.1) - [Next: 266.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3.3) - [Up: 266.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.3.2) · Pramāṇa