"As for the spells practised by the women to bring young men under their control, they are infinite. Of such a nature are they that any such youth becomes mad, nor is he given any respite to think of anything else. ... Let this serve as a warning to our Europeans who intend to travel in India, so that they may not allow their liberty to be taken from them, for afterwards they will weep over their unhappy irremediable state. It happens often to one so bound by spells that after his lady-love has died he cannot endure the approach of any other woman, remaining ever overcome by sorrow for the defunct."
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Niccolao Manucci (tr. W. Irvine), Vol. II, pp. 134–135. Quoted in Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, "A Few Stories of Witchcraft, Magic, &c., told by Niccolao Manucci in his “Storia do Mogor” or Mogul India (1653–1708)", Papers Read Before the Anthropological Society of Bombay (1918), p. 20
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