Religion:Chiragh Kush

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Chiragh kush or Chiragh kosh (lamp killer) plural Chiragh kushan or Chiragh koshan[1](Persian: چراغ کش‎)[2][3][4] was the Persian name for a false libel that was applied to various sects and religions across Eurasia since the Roman empire up the present day, accusing practitioners of that sect of religion of gathering one night with their mothers and sisters, and extinguishing the lights to engage in a massive sexual incestual orgy. It was directed against Christians, Cathars, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Alevis, Ismailis and many other sects. Today it survives mainly in the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia and is levied at minority sects including Twelver Shia, Alevis and Ismailis.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

History

Roman empire persecution of Christians

Marcus Aerlius's Roman pagan tutor Fronto accused the early Christians of engaging in an incest orgy after causing the light to bow out by throwing a food at a dog tied to the lamp.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] The slander of the incest orgy by putting the lights out against the Christians by Roman pagans was later repeated against the Cathars.[47]

Carposcratians were also accused of the light extinguishing incest orgy by Clement of Alexandria and Gnostics were accused of consuming fetuses.[48][49][50][51]

In addition to the incest orgy Christians were accused of eating babies.[52][53][54][55][56][57]

M. Brett Wilson noticed the connection between the accusations of putting the lights out and engaging in incest that normal Sunni Muslims accused the heterodox Bektashi order of doing, and the Roman pagan accusations against the Christians.[58][59]

The Christian Tertullian started accusing Christian heretics of doing the incest orgy by extinguishing lights after the Roman pagans accused Christians of it.[60][61] The same accusations the Roman pagans levelled against the Christians about the incest orgy and light extinguishers were used by Christians against heretical Christian sects.[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]

Manichaeans, Christian heretics, Gnostics, Bogomils, Cathars, witches

The Fraticelli, Brethren of the Free Spirit and Cathars in medieval Europe were accused of blowing the lights out and engaging in incestual sex orgies by Christians, just as Roman pagans accused Christians of doing earlier. Heresies like Bogomils, Paulicians, Messalians were accused of doing the same thing as well as Gnostics, Montanists and Carpocratians by Clement of Alexandria and other heretics were accused of "aposbennuntes tous luchnous" (with the lights extinguished)by Justin Martyr in 150. Manichaeans were accused of "lucerna extincta" by Augustine.[70][71][72][73]

Cathars (Albigensian) were accused of "They commenced their religious rites by chanting litanies to long lists of devils, until a toad, a cat, or some other small beast, which they supposed to be a demoniac incarnation, appeared in their midst. The lights were then extinguished, and they delivered themselves up to the most sacrilegious, and even incestuous orgies."[74][75][76][77]

"Wild stories, moreover, were told of the nightly orgies in which the lights were extinguished and promiscuous intercourse took place; and the stubbornness of heresy was explained by telling how, when a child was born of these foul excesses, it was tossed from hand to hand through a fire until it expired; and that from its body was made an infernal eucharist of such power that whoever partook of it was thereafter incapable of abandoning the sect."[78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90]

Women accused of being witches in medieval Europe were also accused of eating babies and engaging in sexual orgies at night.[91][92][93][94][95][96]

Alevi Qizilbash in Turkey, Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, Druze of the Levant

Alevis in Turkey and Yezidis in Iraq were both accused by other sects of engaging in orgies during their religious celebrations.[97]

Some Turkish Sunnis still use phrases like "Alevis do not know their mothers and sisters" (Aleviler ana bacı tanımaz) and "to extinguish candles" (mum söndürmek) in reference to the libel that they engage in the incest orgy in darkness by extinguishing candles in their religious ceremonies at the cem.[98][99]

Qizilbash (Kizilbash) were described as candle extinguishers (Mümsöndürun and Zarati) by Sunnis in Ottoman Turkey. The Salonica Crpyto-Jews (Dönmeh) were also accused of the incest orgy as well as Druze currently by other Arabs and in the 12th century by Benjamin of Tudela.[100][101][102][103] In northern Iraq the incest orgy with extinguishing the lights is called "night of the kafsha" (knight of [removing] slippers) (Laylat al-Kafsha) against the Yezidis.) The Takhtajis were also accused of the same and Alawites (different from Alevis) of Çıplaklar were also accused of candle extinguishing for incest orgies, called Müm söndü by Turkish Sunnis. Christians of the convent of Ukbara in Iraq close to Baghdad were also accused of the orgy on the "night of the mashush" in the book ad-Diyarat by Abu al-Hassan al-Shabushti.[104]

Alawites were falsely accused of incest orgies and extinguishing lights by Sunnis.[105] The Murshidi sect of the Alawites was also falsely accused of engaging in a sexual orgy.[106][107]

Ismailis of Syria

The gullible Samuel Lyde believed in the false slanderous rumours against the Ismailis of Syria over the orgy.[108]

Ismailis of Central Asia

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat accused Ismailis in Central Asia of engaging in Chiragh-Kush (extinguishing the lamps for orgies) just as Ottoman Sunnis accused the "Red caps" Qizilbash in Anatolia of doing.[109]

Sunnis in Tajikistan falsely believed that Ismaili Pamiris of Gorno Badakhshan practiced incest.[110]

Twelver Shia of Pakistan and India

Sunni Muslims in Pakistan and India accuse Twelver Shia of engaging in a sexual orgy after extinguishing the lights at Shaam-e-Ghariban after Ashura.[111][112]

Cambodia

According to French historian Michael Vickery (told to Étienne Aymonier) there were Khmer Theravada Buddhists who believed their Cham Sunni Muslim neighbours gathered for incest sex orgies after blowing the lights out in their mosques at night once a year.[113]

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