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[1]" 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[2] 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.[3]
Sej' dujpels TO TrpoerwTTo <xov ovra to e^eis (Tto (XTUj^ia aov, eKeli'O (pvXat,€' k:cu OPTUS deXeis vh fi)) (re (jkeTrrj cwdptoTtos, (oaXe to (tto aTOfia aov.
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)
