Bang Galore
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An odd story to recount here , but on a part curiosity/part obligatory trip to a certain "healer" here with someone.. I found it interesting that when the person under "treatment" recounted their experience and described the tormentor.. the description given was of a rather hairy.. and Monkey-ish looking being.. whom the "healer" identified as a Jinn from Hanuman's tribe/lineage.. rather odd.. and again...depends on how you look at it.. but essentially provided a basis for Muslims to essentially conform to the events of the Mahabharta as fairly plausible and divine/supernatural in nature.
Would be the Ramayana, not the Mahabharata that connection is being sought to be made. Also "healers" may use religion but the very nature of their work may cause reason for the use of more obscure "ideas" than normal - Use all the stories of the land, do not limit it just to those identified by a religion. I'm reasonably sure that any distance outside the sub continent, any healer is unlikely to make the same "diagnosis". (i.e. less a basis for "Muslims" to identify with events of the Ramayana/Mahabharata, more a connection being drawn of the people of the land -Pakistanis, to be connected to ancient stories of that land)