The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-16
THE EGYPTIAN MAGlclANs.

from the fact of several articles of property HAVING
been stolen from his house. he sent fol- the
Mughrebee magician, with the view OF in,m'osunl
thcm and causing the guilty f any Oh tnem were
guilty. To confess his crime. The magician came
and said that he would the exact image OF ths
person who had committed the thefts to appear TO an,
youth arrived at the age Of puberty ana desiret
the master of the house to call IN any boy whom ht
might choose As several boys then employed
In q garden adjacent 10 the house, one of them wat
called for this purpose. In the palm of this boys
right hand the magician drew, with a pen, certain
diagram, in the centre of which he poured little
ink Into this ink he desired the boy steadfastly Il
look He then burned some incense and several bits
of paper Inscribed with charms and at the same
time called for various objects to appear in the ink
The boy declared that he all these objects, and
last of all, the image Of the guilty person; he de-
scrbed the stature the countenance, and dress said
that he knew him and directly down into the
garden and apprehended one of the laborors, who
when brought before the master, Immediately con-
fessed that he was the thief
1.-The strips of paper were inscribed with certain
forms Of incarnation, such Turshoon' and Tury-
ooshoon,' which he said the Of two geni,,
hs familiar spirits. compared the copies (says Mr..
Lane) with the originals and found that they exact
y agreed. The following is translation:
'Turshoon Turyooshoon Come down!
Come down! Be present! Whittier are gone
the prince and his troops' Where are Ii Ahhmar
the prince and his troops Be present,
ye servants Of these names! And this is the re-
mova
And we have removed from thee
thy veil; and thy sight to-day
is piercing. Correct, correct'
1.-THE boy, on the present occasion, was brought
in by Mr. Lanes desire, from among parcel of boys
in the street. returning from msnufactory and had
therefore previous communication with the old
Magus. The preparations being completed with all
the accompanying mummery, and after mutterng in
distinctly few words, he then asked him (the boy
Al. a.. - a.~ol
No - but about minute after, the boy, trembling,
and seeming much frightened said, / see man
sweeping the ground when he has done sweep
ing said the magician, tell me-. Presently the boy
said, He has DONE. The magician then again inter-
ruped his muttering to ask the boy if he knew what
bewuek Cor aag) was and being answered yes de-
sired him to say bring flag. The boy did SO, and
soon said he has brought flag what color is
itr asked the magician. The boy replied, red He
told to call for another flag, which he did, and
soon after he said that he saw another brought and
that it was black. In like he was tod to
call for third, fourth fifth, sixth, and seventh
which he described being successfully brought be-
fore him, specifying their colors white, green,
black, red and blue The magician then asked him,
(as he did also each time that a new flag was de-
scrbed as being brought,) How many flags have you
now before you'' Seven, answered the boy While
this going on, the magician put the second and
third of the small strips of paper upon which the
forms of invocation written, into chafng dish,
been repeatedly added, the fumes became painful to
the eyes. When the boy had described the seven
flags as appearing to him, he was required to say,
bring the Sootan's tent, and pitch it, This he did
and in about minute after he said some men have
brought the tenta large green tent they pitching
itand presently he added they have set Now"
said the Magician, order the soldiers and to
pitch their camp around the tent of the Sooltan.'
The boy did as be was desired and Immediately said
81 see great many soldiers with their tents-they
have nit hed thair fen He than III tn
der that the soldiers should be drawn up in ranks
and, having done SO, he presently said, that he
them thus arranged. The magician had put the fourth
of the little strips of paper into the cha6ngdsh and
soon after he did the same with the fifth. He
said Tell some of the people to bring bull The
boy gave the order required, and said see bull
il is red four dragging it along, and three
beating it, He told to desire them to kill it,
and cut it up, and to put the meat in sauccpans, and
cook it. He did as he directed, and described
these operations as apparently performed before his
eyes. Tell the soldiers said the magician, to eat
it. The boy did So and said, They are eating it.
They have done, and are washing their hands, The
magician then told him to call for the Sooltan and
the boy having done this, said, l the Sootan
riding to his tent, bay horse and he has on his
head high red cap; he has aghted at his tent, and
sat down within it, Desire them to bring coffee to
the Sooltan,' said the magician, and to form the
court These orders were given by the boy, and he
said that he them performed
He now addressed himself to me- and asked me
if wished the boy to see any person who absent
or dead' ! named Lord Nelson, of whom the boy
had evidently never heard for it with much
difficulty that he pronounced the name after several
trials. The magician desired the boy to say to the
Sooltan-' My master sautes thee, and desires thee
to bring Lord Nelson; bring him before my eyes,
that may see him speedily The boy did so, and
almost Immediately added, "A messenger is gone,
and has returned, and brought man, dressed in
black suit Of European clothes; the man has lost his
lett arm He then paused for a moment or two
and, looking more ntently and more closely into the
ink, said No, he has not lost his left arm but it is
placed to his breast This correction made his des
cripon more striking than it had been without it,
since Lord Lelson generally had the empty sleeve at
tched to the breast of his coat but it the right
arm that he had lost Without saying that suspect
ed the boy had made mistake, asked the magician
whether the objects appeared in the ink if actual
ly before the eyes, if in glass, which makes
the right appear left. He answered that they APP
Peared as in mirror. This rendered the boys de-
scription faultless.
"rhe next person | called for native Of
Egypt, who has beer for many years resident in Eng
snd where he has adopted dress and who had been
long confined to his bed by illness before embarked
for this country thought that his name one not
very uncommon in Egypt, might make the boy describe
HIM Incorrectly; though another boy, on the former
visit of the magician, had described this same person
as wearing European dress like that which last
saw him. In the present he boy said Here is
a man brought on kind of bier, and wrapped up ia
a sheet This description would suit, surprising the
person in question to be still confined 10 his he'd or if
he be dead. The hoy described his face as covered
and was told to order that it should be uncovered
This he dill, and then said, His face is pale and he
has mustachos but no beard which is correct.
"'That there was no confederacy, says Mr.. Lane,
Il satisfactorily asceralned by selecting the boy Who
performed the part above described Ia my presence
from number Of others passing by in the street and
by his rejecting present, which | afterwards offered
him, with the view OF inducing him confess that be
did not really what he had procssed to have seen
The result was the same with another boy another
occasion Then, again, surprising by pictorial repre-
sensations, descriptions otherwise procured, many
public characters might admit Of &C. Nv ate
What previous prepa ration could he nagican have for
describing certain obscure individual Us lying in