Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights
CHAPTER IV.
MAGIC.
Spiritual magic, divine or Satanic--Babel--Hároot and Mároot--Enchantment--Divination--Astrology--Geomancy-- Auguration--Chiromancy--Omens--Dreams--A dream of the Great Plague, 1835--Lucky and unlucky days--Natural magic--Alchymy--The magician Ṣádoomeh and his miracles 80