Oh! Elymas![4] Oh! black hero! Oh! powerful demi-god!
_Note._—Asked to explain a meteor, or shooting-star, the natives say,
“You see! Shāitān ever since he has been expelled from Heaven is trying
to get back, and these balls of fire, or ‘Chawathas’ which some call
“Shâb” from the Arabic, are hurled at him to keep him off, and so they
do, and he never succeeds.”
Footnote 4:
Acts xiii. 8.
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