Pinault/Notes, 7. JINNS AND SORCERY IN LAHORE

The research project that brought me to Lahore to begin with involved Shia ritual. But Lahore is so rich in the visual stimulants it offers that it’s hard to stay focused for long on exclusively one topic. Among the stimulants I noticed one day while traversing Anarkali Bazaar was a big placard on which were painted a black hand and a text in Urdu. I was riding in a car with my research assistant Reza. We passed the sign before I could read it all; but I caught the words “palmist” and “astrologer.”