Malanda
ملندة
A large town on the coast of the Zanj lands. Its people live by hunting on land and sea and work iron they mine. They claim to charm dangerous animals so that they harm only those they choose, and they have a word in their language for a sorcerer 1.
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Malanda is a large city on the coast of the sea in the land of the Zanj. Its people live by hunting on land and sea, and they extract iron and work it. 2
Al-Idrisi says that they claim to be able to bewitch harmful animals, so that the animals harm only those they wish to harm. He adds that their sorcerer is called in their language "al-Muqanqa". 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 59
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.59
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