The Holy Land and Syria (1922) (14803558603)

Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)

Title: The Holy Land and Syria

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924

Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the centre of superstition inJerusalem, where imagination sets the only limit to stories told to thetourists—and implicitly believed by many of them

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The women of the Holy Land are great believers in the power of theEvil Eye and wear blue beads and other charms to keep the spirits away.Bits of alum, which is supposed to be especially effective, are often worn inlittle bags around the neck THE EVIL EYE of God. Otherwise they believe such expressions arebound to bring misfortunes and possibly troubles anddeath. If you call a boy or a girl pretty its mothersheart is filled with terror, and she straightway throwsout her hand, extending the index and little fmger in away supposed to ward off the devil and to prevent theevil consequences of your remark. If you wish to praisethe beauty of a child you must begin the sentence with,May God surround thee. After that you may go onas you please. If you pat the child on the head and failto use this sentence, the mother upon returning homewill take the child into a room and put it in the middleof the floor. She will then take a shovel and gather somedust from each of the four corners, and throw i

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