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Title: Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eir charge. Blue is the favourite colour for To Ward this purpose, and the swathingOff the / F 5 Evil Eye. bands are fastened on the child s breast with a powerful charm. This is a sheeps eye brought from Mecca, when the great holocaust of these animals takes place, and into it is stuck a turquoise ; while a camel charm consisting of a small the saving word Mashallah (God isgreat) to their remarks, should bring disasterupon it. Most illnesses are put down to the evileye, and one poor baby suffering fromwater on the brain was pro-nounced by a Persian doctorto be in the grasp of a demon.His prescription was as fol-lows : The parents were to lay the child ina newly-dug grave and leave it there duringthe night. In the morning it would eitherbe cured or the evil spirit would have madeaway with it. The advice was duly followed,and the parents found the baby next morningfast asleep in its novel cradle, but, strangeto say, neither better nor worse for its cure! A Child, a Doctor, and a Demon.
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636 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS The father ol .1 Persian girl will in all probability ignore her, unless he happen to be the proud possessor of Persian ■ winch case he may not Oirlhood. object to a daughter, and mayeven play with her in the seclusion of theAnderoonor womens apartments. Theiittle thing begins to grow up with herbrothers, and is given some perfunctoryschooling with them until she is eight,after which, save in the higher classes, hereducation ceases, at least in a literarydirection. A Persian woman who can readand write is looked upon as a kind ofwonder. At eight years of age she isseparated more or less from her playfellows,and to understand how this is 1 must givesome description of a Persian house. It is always built round courtyards, into which the doors and windows open, and is enclosed with high walls Household over which it is impossibleArrangements ... , , in Persia. to see whlle a heavv door on the street admits the visitor into the biroon or outer apartments.These a

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