ABSTRACT
In a country which contains so many different tribes, and where almost every town, even when belonging to people speaking the same language, was at enmity with its neighbours, it was only natural for the inhabitants to imagine that every community had its own particular spirits, and that when the worshippers went to war these supernatural beings aided them against the bori of the enemy. In any case, since the bori community is organised upon the same lines as those of the worshippers, it necessarily follows that there should be a special corps of warriors, the Yan Garke (Children of the Shield), all of whom are renowned in war. Many are fighting jinns of foreign origin, no doubt, but some are almost certainly heroes.
