Cinci Hoca

Cinci Hoca, meaning the hoca of jinn, was the epithet of Karabaşzade Hüseyin Efendi, an Ottoman witch doctor born in Safranbolu. Kösem Sultan brought him to the palace to treat the mentally troubled Sultan Ibrahim, and the sultan's favor raised him high: in 1643 he became kadi of Galata and in 1644 kazasker of Anatolia, enraging the ulama.

After Ibrahim was deposed in 1648, Grand Vizier Sofu Mehmed Pasha seized his fortune and exiled him toward Damascus; when he railed against the vizier on the road, he was arrested and executed at Mihalcık.