THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN earth, were visited by evil spirits, which took the form of jackals and wolves and other animals. It is not the " custom of our country," he said, to go to such places except in the daytime, and it was " not nice " to intrude upon the ground of the dead kings. The natives of Barkal had said much the same kind of thing, and it was evident that their belief concerning the spirits PORTRAITS OK TWO BOYS AT BAGRAWIYA EMPLOYED TO SCARE BIRDS FROM THE DHURRA CROP.

ot the dead kings was general in the country, but the shekh's idea that evil spirits dwelt in wolves and jackals was new to me.

In Ethiopian lives of saints we often meet with the statement that the king of the devils rides on a fire-breathing wolf in a forest, and that he is accompanied on his journeys by fiends in the form of wolves, and it seems that the modern Sudani folk must have inherited a phase of this belief from earlier peoples in the country.

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