text:  In vain had poor Lalah-Zar endeavoured to appease this unwelcome intruder which had driven tenant after tenant from the house by distributing bread to the poor at the tomb of the late owner; the annoyance continued undiminished--pieces of charcoal were left at the doors equivalent to the imprecation "May your faces be blackened!" and no female servant would remain in the house it being universally believed that the touch of an 'Efreet renders a woman a demoniac