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308 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. [PART II. afterwards by the music, and other sounds of mirth, one of the women takes a brass mortar,* and strikes it repeatedly with the pestle, as if pounding. After this, the child is put into a sieve, and shaken; it being supposed that this operation is beneficial to its stomach. Next, it is carried through all the apartments of the hareem, accompanied by several women or girls; each of whom bears a number of wax candles, sometimes of various colours, cut in two, lighted, and stuck into small lumps of paste of henna, upon a small round tray. At the same time, the dayeh, or another female, sprinkles, upon the floor of each room, a mixture of salt and seed of the fennel-flower f, or salt alone, which has been placed during the preceding night at the infant's head; saying, as she does this, " The salt be in the eye of the person who doth not bless the Prophet!"+ or, " The foul salt be in the eye of the envier!" § This ceremony of the sprinkling of salt || is considered a preservative, for the child and mother, from the evil eye: and each person present should say, " O God, favour our lord Mohammad!" The child, wrapped up, and placed on a fine mattress, which is sometimes laid on a silver tray, is shown to each of the women present, who looks at its face, says, " O God, favour our lord Mohammad! God give thee long life!" &c, and usually puts an embroidered hand- * " Hon." f " Habbeh soda." X " El-milh fee 'eyn ellee ma yesallee 'a-n-nebee." " Yesallee " is for " yusallee ;" and " ?a-n-nebee," for " 'ala-n-nebee." § " El-milh el-fasid fee 'eyn el-hasid." || " Rashsh el-milh."
Title | An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians - 2 |
Creator | Lane, Edward William |
Publisher | C. Knight and Co. |
Place of Publication | London |
Date | 1842 |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000320 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | 308 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. [PART II. afterwards by the music, and other sounds of mirth, one of the women takes a brass mortar,* and strikes it repeatedly with the pestle, as if pounding. After this, the child is put into a sieve, and shaken; it being supposed that this operation is beneficial to its stomach. Next, it is carried through all the apartments of the hareem, accompanied by several women or girls; each of whom bears a number of wax candles, sometimes of various colours, cut in two, lighted, and stuck into small lumps of paste of henna, upon a small round tray. At the same time, the dayeh, or another female, sprinkles, upon the floor of each room, a mixture of salt and seed of the fennel-flower f, or salt alone, which has been placed during the preceding night at the infant's head; saying, as she does this, " The salt be in the eye of the person who doth not bless the Prophet!"+ or, " The foul salt be in the eye of the envier!" § This ceremony of the sprinkling of salt || is considered a preservative, for the child and mother, from the evil eye: and each person present should say, " O God, favour our lord Mohammad!" The child, wrapped up, and placed on a fine mattress, which is sometimes laid on a silver tray, is shown to each of the women present, who looks at its face, says, " O God, favour our lord Mohammad! God give thee long life!" &c, and usually puts an embroidered hand- * " Hon." f " Habbeh soda." X " El-milh fee 'eyn ellee ma yesallee 'a-n-nebee." " Yesallee " is for " yusallee ;" and " ?a-n-nebee," for " 'ala-n-nebee." § " El-milh el-fasid fee 'eyn el-hasid." || " Rashsh el-milh." |
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