Harem of Jewish slave traders to supply eunuchs to harems depended on whether they could acquire castrated males. European artists and writers envisioned and presented the Oriental harem in a romanticized, albeit historically inaccurate manner. The dark eunuch was held as the embodiment of the sensual tyranny that held sway in the fantasized Ottoman palace, for he had been "clipped" or "completely sheared" to make of him the "ultimate slave" for the supreme ruler. In the Ottoman court, white eunuchs, who were mostly brought from castration centers in Christian Europe and Circassia, were responsible for much of the palace administration, while
The Return of a Man Called Horse The Return of a Man Called Horse The Return of a Man Called Horse is a 1976 American-Mexican western film directed by Irvin Kershner involving a conflict over territory between Sioux Indians and white men. It is the sequel to "A Man Called Horse" and it was followed by "Triumphs of a Man Called Horse" in 1982. Richard Harris reprises his role as Horse, a British aristocrat who has become a member of a tribe of Lakota Sioux. Trappers with government support force the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land. The Indians retreat, but await supernatural punishment to descend