We still have the hoodoo man of colored persuasion, and the redskin medicine-man, together with Oriental sorcerers from Kipling and others. Examples are: _In the House of Suddoo_, by Kipling, where the wonder-worker unites a canny knowledge of the telephone and telegraph along with his unholy art; _Red Debts_, by Lumley Deakin, where the Indian magician exacts a terrible penalty for the wrong done him, and where his diabolic appearance to claim his victim leaves one in doubt as to whether he has not sent his chief in his place; _The Monkey's Paw_, by W. W. Jacobs, a curdling story of a magic curse given by an Oriental sorcerer, by which the paw of a dead monkey grants three wishes that have a dreadful boomerang power; _Black Magic_, by Jessie Adelaide Weston,--who claims that all her supernatural stories are strictly true--the narrative of an old Indian sorcerer that changes himself into a hair mat and is shot for his pains. He has obtained power over the house by being given a hair from the mat by the uninitiated mistress. Hair, you must know, has great power of evil in the hands of witches and sorcerers, as in the case of the evil ones in _The Talisman_, who received their thrall over the maidens by one hair from each head. F. Marion Crawford's _Khaled_ is a story of magic art. Khaled is one of the genii converted by reading the Koran, who wishes to be a mortal man with a soul. He is given the right to do so if he can win the love of a certain woman. Hence he is born into the world, like Adam, a full-grown man, to be magically clothed and equipped, by the transformation of leaves and twigs into garments and armor, and the changing of a locust into an Arabian steed. After many supernatural adventures, he receives his soul from an angel. The soul, at first a crescent flame, immediately took shape and became the brighter image of Khaled himself. And when he had looked at it fixedly for a few minutes--the vision of himself had disappeared and before he was aware it had entered his own body and taken up its life with him. This is a parallel to the cases of ghostly doubles discussed in the previous chapter.