We had been encountered by the group of the jinn over the culvert bridge in the full moonlit night. At the beginning of the flooding season in 1993 I was on holiday in my birthplace West Tilak also spelt Tilok at Akbar-Kutir is most commonly known as Master-bari of West Tilak, Shaharpara, Jagannathpur, Sunamganj, in Bangladesh where I stayed over eight months and at that time there wasn’t electricity supplied in the area.
At night sleeping inside a concrete roof house in the summer, the sunshine generates lots of heat inside the house without using the manual fan as it is really difficult to go to sleep, especially for people who live in the United Kingdom because it is very hot inside of the house. In night walking under the trees within the boundary of the house or going on a canoe ride in the open-air field is a very good option for having fresh air and cooling yourself down then coming back home and going to sleep easily.
On one of the nights with my younger maternal cousin brother, Razik Miah of Sarang-bari (marine house) which is also my mum’s house and belongs to the clan of Baglar Goshty of Shahrpara, which is my clan too and I walked into the main dirt track road to have some fresh air. The night was very special because the weather was moderate, and it was a moonlit night with twinkling stars on the horizon. They were fantastic which gave an awesome visual effect, as well as the on-ground, it was fully watery around the open field which is also giving the silvery shining sparkle effect on the water.
We went through to the Shaharpara Bazar beside the southern side of School-bari and it was majestic throughout in every direction of the open airfield, so it was a wonderful feeling with the breezing wind. There was tranquillity around the area with the clear views as we did not use our torchlights and then walked towards the Novagaon or Nawagaon or Noyagaon of Syedpur Shaharpara Union Parishad, without any fear of being just two of us alone in the night and came too far away from our home without realising its late at night.
Before we enter the Novagaon there is a tree scientific name: Diospyros malabarica English name: Gaab tree, Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, black-and-white ebony or pale moon ebony (in Bengali it is called Gab Gach and locally it is called Kosh Gach which are immature fruits are used to dye fishing nets and unripe leaves, as well as the immature fruits, were traditionally used to dye cloth black) on the left side of the dirt track road we went beside the tree and went onto the first culvert bridge over the canal of Dorarair Khal Novagaon where we sited on the southern side of the railing of the culvert bridge.
Suddenly on our right, we saw some dogs coming towards us which is from the way of Diospyros malabarica tree marching in lines like an army on the dirt track road and then came to the culvert bridge and sit-downs in front of us with a few lines just like an audience in the theatre on the culvert bridge approximately around 12 dogs which are in the variety in colours. It is a small culvert bridge which is they almost covers the whole culvert bridge the way they are lined and seated.
We were so scared we had to crab each other hands together tightly and sit on the railing withholding the torchlight on our hands and being ready in case they attacked, we had to self-defence. I said to Razik do not be fear of this, these are only the dogs, he said; Now it is almost midnight and also the flood season I never expected to see many dogs coming out at night as a group like that and they do not even bark, look at them they are creepy and demonic looks, the way they are looking at us without any fear of us, instead we cannot even eye contact to them because of their horrifying evil eyes.
I don’t think we have that many wild dogs in our village together by the dry side of the main dirt track road. They all look dry none of them has dirt on their legs or even feet, the reason why I’m saying this is if these are the real packs of dogs then they must have been gathered from different houses and most of the houses are not connected to the main dirt track road as a dry dirt track as we know that. We knew some parts of the main dirt track road were still submerged by the water; Therefore, we had to walk through the dirt, mud and even through the water.
Real dogs have to swim to come to the main dirt track road and also walk through the dirt, mud, and water as well as we did; said Razik. At this point, we lit two cigarettes and then I said to Razik that they could not do anything to us because we had the fire now and told him to avoid their looks hold the torch tightly and keep talking the way we were talking to each other and do not look at them directly.
But we still feel the fear of the horror because of their behaviour which is not like the normal dogs the reason, is the way they were marching like Amy in a few lines too close to us and looked at us with frightening eyes it was horrible to look at their demonic eyes. They were listening to our conversation and looking at us for some minutes and then they went back to the same way they came onto the bridge. We feel the release of the terror, thanks to the almighty God "Allah (swt)" we are relieved from the horror of the ghost herd of the animal. These were the spirits of Jinn we were confronted at the culvert bridge in the full moonlit night.
The Jinn can be transformed into dogs’ serpents or various animals and Jinn can appear in human form. We never have seen a pack of wild dogs come too close to people in Bangladesh, the reason is those were not the wild dogs. The people in Bangladesh have always beaten up wild dogs if they come too near to them. The dogs in Bangladesh are always frightened to come too close to people. Pet dogs always stayed home at night and guarded their owner's house throughout the night. The guard dogs never leave the boundary of their owner’s house, especially at night.
Jinn (often al-jinn or djinn) are shape-shifting spirits made of fire and air with origins in pre-Islamic Arabia. Neither inherently good nor bad, Jinn are amorphous entities, able to take the shape of humans and animals, alike. Jinns are said to inhabit caves, deserted places, bamboo gardens, graveyards, trees, gardens, swamps and darkness. They marry, produce children, eat, drink and die but unlike human beings have the power to take on different shapes and are capable of moving heavy objects almost instantly from one place to another. The Qur'an mentions how the Prophet Solomon contrived to subjugate the Jinn and get them to perform tasks that required strength, intelligence and skill.
The Diospyros malabarica tree before entering Novagaon from Shaharpara Bazar is haunted and many people witness these paranormal activities there. We heard many paranormal stories of this Novagaon Diospyros malabarica tree where ghost asylum from our elder generation which I experienced.
In the 16th century, there was a nearby battle called Vijayanagar which may be the spirits of dead soldiers. There is a village called Vijay Nagar or Vijayanagara means victor, which is in this neighbourhood.
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