Hither And Thither a Span Classsearchtermspan Classsearchtermcollecti
Hither And Thither a Span Classsearchtermspan Classsearchtermcollecti
John Thomson
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Per minute. 262 HITHER AND THITHER. the breast, cutting off the hair and beard, lying on the ground, walking about barefooted, and abstaining from washing and anointing themselves. The strangest thing is that in some of the old tombs opened in Palestine, as well as in Greece and Italy, are found lachrymatories, or tear bottles, in which it was customary for mourners to preserve their tears. Travellers have often written of the extraordinary readiness with which Eastern people can, under strong ...excitement, and even when only filling the post of hired mourners, shed great quantities of tears. The Chinese who are special adepts at copious weeping, mourn in white; and every article of dress must be of that colour when the loss is that of a near relative. When the loss is in the second degree, grief is shown by simply wear- ing caps and girdles of white linen; and if the relationship to the dead is remote, they put on merely shoes and a queue of blue. The laws of the country are of an exceedingly paternal character and the death of a parent or husband must be mourned, willy-nilly, under penalty of sixty blows and a year's banishment.
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