The Haunting of Seema: a Supernatural Struggle
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One evening Belahur's daughter Seema went outside to fetch water. She felt something strange but ignored it and carried the water home. Later, she went to the shop along the same path to get a tobacco dip (naswār, a moist, powdered tobacco used in Pakistan and Afghanistan) for her father. This time, she saw an ugly man with long hair near a big oak tree. This tree was known to be haunted by a jinn who appeared in human form and possessed people. So, people usually avoided passing by this tree especially in the evening. When Seema returned home, her voice had changed to that of an old man, and her hands were shivering. When her mother, Belahur, asked what was going on Seema replied in a deep voice: I am not alone. We are three, and the other two are girls. All of us liked your daughter and want to take her. Belahur, terrified and desperate, tried to choke Seema, thinking she was squeezing the neck of the man possessing her. Seema reacted violently, crying, beating herself, and behaving unusually. Belahur's husband decided to take Seema to a religious scholar molvi, for help. Using his knowledge and skills, the molvi managed to expel the [bad] spirits from Seema and made them promise never to return. He explained that the jinns were non-Muslim supernatural beings who always tried to harm their victims. However, despite the molvi's intervention, Seema began to show unusual symptoms again, indicating that the supernatural forces continued to have an influence on her.
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