s. f. (M.), Feminine, diminutive of Chelá. A woman possessed by a Jinn or evil spirit. Women so afflicted repair to certain religious shrines,—Jalalpur in Multan, Shahr Sultan in Muzaffargarh, Uch in Bahawalpur, Pír Katál in Dera Ghazí Khan—to have the evil spirits cast out. The patients sit together, bareheaded, on the ground and sway their arms and bodies about to the sound of a drum. An attendant of the shrine goes round beating them with a whip, while another gives them scented oil (phulel) to put on their heads and to drink. The performance ends by the exhausted women being dragged away by their relations.