Mahometans.
They account mad Men as Oracles and Saints, whose Souls are in Heaven, talking with God; and if such strike or rob them, they take it in good part, saying, They shall have good Luck after it. They erect stately Monuments over their Graves, as at Aleppo, over the Grave of one Sheh Boubat, who being mad, went always naked, where to this day are Lamps burning day and night, and many Dervise•• there maintained, to look to his Sepulchre, and to receive the offerings of such as come every week out of Aleppo. Purchas.
The same account they make of one Sheh Mahamed, a mad Man, yet living in Aleppo, go∣ing naked with a Spit on his Shoulder. Idem.
By the Law of Mahomet Sooth-sayers are im∣prisoned, and yet in Fez are many of that Profes∣sion. Rosse.