 It depicted an image of a man whose lower body was that of a scorpion, and local tradition claimed that if a man was stung by a scorpion, he should take clay, press it on the image, then dissolve the clay in water and drink it.Afterward, pain from the sting would cease and he would quickly recover.In 1154, Muslim geographer al-Idrisi wrote that the mosque was "one of the largest of all the cities of Syria".