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172 youth, the hateful Half-head; and cries with a loud voice that he wants man's flesh to eat. Then came a voice from heaven, which said " something or other in reference to King Pharaoh and the kiss of Judas, our Lord, the Virgin Mary, and Aaron, adding: "Depart and flee from the servant of God, N. or M." Another charm is given to get rid of this creature, to be repeated three times. "In the beginning was the word," is the first sentence; St. John and the Virgin are invoked, but there is nothing of interest to us in it. The "half-head" is probably the monster, familiar in the east, who is merely a shell; complete before, but hollow behind.

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1 Trepa tov 'lopbcipov ivoTajiov aTeKei epas r/os, tov hkttjtov ^jfiiKociPOv, Kal Kpa'CeL jueyaXr] t)j <pwp\], (payeiv deXei upeas avdpu)- TTOv' j) fieyaXris ixLarjTOv icpapiov' I'jXde (puipl) t'fc Toii ovpapov /cat elirey, TrToydrjTi TTTOijdrjTOv to tov ^apaop to Xaop, Kal tov 'loved top acnrafTfxop, hioTi b Xpiaros ae biMKeip Kal // irepayia \_SIC, for vwepa- y/ci] deoTOKos kcu 6 aTWfj.aTOS 'Apov KpapiTtjS e^eXde kul apaywpi(rop awo TOV bovXov, etc. — Signs and letters (fol. ii). This has apparently been copied from an older document, or written down from memory, and much blundered.

- etffe fiiaoKefaXo (l)vXaKTd pa to biajjciatjs TpeXs (j)opes Kul pa to ftaXijs (TTO KecjxiXi tov. 'Ep apx?'  '^ Xoyos, etc. [Fol. lo.]

^ Mr. Crooke has kindly sent me this note :

In the "Story of Janshah." {Bmion, yi/-a6ian JVig/its. Library Edition, vol. iv. p. 279.)

" Presently they came upon a spring of running water in the midst of the island, and saw from afar a man sitting hard by it. So they went up to him and saluted him, and he returned their salam, speaking in a voice like the whistle of birds. While Janshah stood marvelling at the man's speech, he looked right and left and suddenly split himself in twain, and each half went a different way."

Burton notes that the Badawi hold whistling to be the speech of devils [cf. miners' objection to whistling underground]. Burckhardt got a bad name by he ugly habit.

" The Arabs call Shikk (split man) and the Persians Nimchahrah (half-face)