Word: naji
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
...Wedding Costume. Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place...
Under the intoning guru's direction, the Shakta women and Naji took off their blouses and put them in a large earthenware jar, and the group drank liquor and feasted on goat flesh. But when Naji discovered the meaning of the ceremony, she refused to participate further. "You must take part in our sacrament," said the guru. Husband Odia also insisted. When her blouse was drawn from the jar, Naji ran off into the darkness...
Shamed by her performance, Odia followed her. "After I cut off her nose," he told the police, "she begged forgiveness and asked me not to report the matter to the police, but I refused to listen." When the police reached Odia's hut, they found that Naji had hanged herself. She had been faithful, after her own fashion...