The Jinns of the Chinar Tree of Shigar
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My name is Muhammad Hassan Khan from the Amacha family. Since I am the PhD holder from Baltistan, people know me as Dr. Amacha whereby in 1975 I completed my MBBS from King Edward Medical College in Lahore and thereafter I obtained a diploma in public health from the College of Community Medicine in Lahore and 10 years later a Master's in Public Health from the same university. [...].
There are various famous tales in Shigar. The one I remember is about a chinar tree in Shigar near the polo ground. Local people believed that if you passed under this tree at night, you would see a hen and its chicks, which would walk alongside you, making noises and bothering you. People were afraid of them because they believed that the hen and chicks were jinns. When I went to Gilgit, there was an even more popular belief that fairies lived in the chinar tree near the Shigar polo ground. In Nagar, people also said that the jinns and fairies there would bother people and take control of them. The people who exorcised the jinns and fairies would ask the possessed individuals where they were from. They would reply that they were from Shigar and lived nearby the chinar tree of the Shigar polo ground. After reciting prayers, the jinns would return to the place they came from, which was the chinar tree at the Shigar polo ground. These stories are well-known across Shigar, Hunza, Nagar, and Gilgit. About 10-12 years ago, the forestry department cut down the chinar tree, and it no longer exists.
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