The four fakirswere quarrelling over these four things.
God went away, and the next day he again came, after all the fakirs and poor people had received their gold and the Raja had gone into his palace.
In old days men who intended to become fakirs had to do three tasks set them by one who was already a fakir; so Goraknath said to the king, "Now you must go to a jungle that I will show you, and stay there for twelve years.
In the Sicilian story he is helped by hermits; in the Greek story, by a monk--monks in Greek and hermits in Sicilian and Servian stories playing the part of the fakirs in these Indian tales.
Ancient Egyptian priests hypnotized the multitudes with a single silvery sound; and in the deepest Indian jungles inspired fakirs induced visions by the clapping of shells.
Then the Sultan ordered them to take up these riches and give them to the fakirs and the poor.
The last cries of thefakirs would by that time be hushed.
Around the idol a number of fakirsdanced and twirled about.
The young woman had been again stupefied with hemp-fumes, and passed between the lines of fakirs who escorted her, uttering wild cries as they proceeded.
Fakirs have hypnotized people I know and have made them witness events and spectacles which they afterward learned were transpiring, at the very moment, five and six thousand miles away.
There are several kinds of fakirs and other religious mendicants in India, about five thousand in number, most of them being nomads, wandering from city to city and temple to temple, dependent entirely upon the charity of the faithful.
Among the higher class of fakirs are many extraordinary men, profound scholars, accomplished linguists and others whose knowledge of both the natural and the occult sciences is amazing.
There is a fearful sect of fakirs devoted to Siva and to Bhairava, the god of lunacy, who associate with evil spirits, ghouls and vampires, and practice hideous rites of blood, lust and gluttony.
I have never seen more remarkable contortionists than the fakirs who can be always found about temples in Benares, and frequently elsewhere.
It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary.
The larger number offakirs are merely religious tramps, worthless, useless impostors, living upon the fears and superstitions of the people and doing more harm than good.
In these little principalities the peasants have, comparatively speaking, no medical attendance; they are dependent upon ignorant fakirs and sorcerers, and they die off like flies, without even leaving a record of their disappearance.
These are a few of the wonderful things fakirs perform about the temples, and nobody has ever been able to discover how they do it.
This, however, is due more to a desire to preserve the peace and prevent collisions between fanatics and fakirsthan for any other reason.
Harley says that the fakirs begin their performances by taking a large dose of the powerfully stupefying "bang," thus becoming narcotized.
Only the fakirs of India seem to have developed this power, and even the gifted ones there are seldom seen.
Weapon composed of the horn of the antelope; steel-pointed; supposed to be that used by the Fakirs in India.
The Fakirs and Dervishes, not being permitted by their profession to carry arms, use the pointed horn of the antelope for this purpose.
A sheet of white or red cloth is spread over the grave, green being usually reserved for Fakirs or saints.
As already stated, a section of the Bhils are at least nominally Muhammadans, and the Fakirs or Muhammadan beggars are also considered a separate caste.
As to their walks in life: among them were clerks and guards from the bank, members of the native constabulary, Indian fakirs and showmen, and venders of foreign gewgaws.
The Indian fakirs and showmen gave a performance in the courtyard at midnight.
It is not derogatory to their supposed divine mission to say that all these men were as enthusiastic as the fakirs of the east.
People think fakirs are the worst class of men in the world, whereas, if the matter was sifted right down, they'd find the class as a whole was honest because they couldn't afford to be otherwise.
Them kind of fakirs are bound to come to grief sooner or later, an' honest people get into a muss tryin' to help 'em.
Come with me now, an' you can get it before the crowd of fakirshave a chance to take it up.
I reckon you'll get along all right, an' come out way ahead, if some of these smart fakirs don't try to get the best of you.
There were no more early visitors; but the fakirs who had been present at the feast on the evening previous gathered around, all appearing very eager to spend money, and trade was as lively as it had been on any other morning.
Breakfast was eaten at an early hour, and the young fakirs returned to the grounds in time for Teddy to meet the first visitors.
Turn out an' get your breakfast before sunrise, for on this morning the early bird will pick up many a penny while the lazy ones are yet in bed, an' fakirs must make hay when the sun shines.
Then, his supper having been cooked and eaten, the host amused himself and his guests by telling of his experience in the show business; relating stories and talking of the different fakirs he had met.
Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant terror, lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy.
They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse, some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly.
The cries of the fakirs were just ceasing; the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to the temple itself.
Fired by recollections of fakirs and devotees in illustrations Colin suggested that they should all sit cross-legged under the tree which made a canopy.
I once heard an officer in India tell my mother that there were fakirs who said words over and over thousands of times," said Mary.
Kuhn’s report of his investigations of the Indian fakirs to the Anthropological Society of Munich, in 1895; the researches of Dr.
Everywhere were fakirs sitting on the ground, receiving the reverence of the people.
One of the fakirs said to us in so many words: "You are God and I am God!
On Wednesday some three hundred of these fakirs marched in procession absolutely naked, while crowds of women prostrated themselves before them, and kissed the very ground over which they had passed.
Don't look shocked--fakirs is the only word; I'm one myself.
It wouldn't have taken you long to find out what a lot of fakirs we are.
Lottery schemes, gambling games of every sort, pocket-picking and robbing are among the methods by which thesefakirs reap their harvest.
One of the fakirs in connection with each show is selected as the "squarer.
The fakirs are altogether of a different kind, being the camp-followers who hang on the heels of a circus for the purpose of swindling the public by every variety of device known to the "blackleg fraternity.
Finding her pregnant the King was rejoiced thereat and fell to distributing alms to the Fakirs and the mesquin and the widows and the orphans, and this continued till the days of his Queen's pregnancy were completed.
So the two embraced and their joy increased, and the father fell to giving alms and scattering moneys amongst the Fakirs and the miserable and the widows and orphans, in gratitude for his daughter's recovery.
At night gasoline lamps flare from the stands of fakirs and venders of toys and cheap novelties who cry their wares.
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