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The Black Cats of Toba Naswali

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Besides our village there is another one far away [called] Toba Nassuvali. One evening, I went there and [realized that] there were no animals or birds. Suddenly, I saw a black cat passing which has never happened before during the many times I had come there. As I was alone, I contacted my family, who asked me to return home immediately. I hastily went and after I had started my bike, I noticed two black cats running along either side of me. I got frightened and sped up the bike. After gaining some distance, I looked back and there were no cats anymore. I got more and more worried, frightened, started shivering, and as I went home I kept wondering about what was going to happen to me. After this incident I met a wise religious, elderly person [for advice] and he asked me to arrange food for 11 persons and invite them to the toba. There I asked them to recite together Darood Sharif and Qurankhani and with Allah's blessing this kind of problem didn't happened there again despite people going there at night and daytime.
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Allah Wasaya; Andreas Bürkert; Martin Wiehle; Eva Schlecht; Ellen Hoffmann. (2025). The Black Cats of Toba Naswali. DaKS. https://doi.org/10.48662/daks-233

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