Things seen in Palestine . itions of the Highlands were 171 Things Seen in Palestine a part of the teaching of , there is much in Palestine to remindone of the Highlands, and in particular theform of the superstitions.* There is thesame custom of associating everything withthe will of God; the same habit of specialforms of prayer for all occasions; for alldetails of household work, when crossing athreshold, when taking flour from the bin,when rising or sitting down, or going tobed, when pouring out water, or raking thefire, and so on. There are hauntings ofwells and lakes
Things seen in Palestine . itions of the Highlands were 171 Things Seen in Palestine a part of the teaching of , there is much in Palestine to remindone of the Highlands, and in particular theform of the superstitions.* There is thesame custom of associating everything withthe will of God; the same habit of specialforms of prayer for all occasions; for alldetails of household work, when crossing athreshold, when taking flour from the bin,when rising or sitting down, or going tobed, when pouring out water, or raking thefire, and so on. There are hauntings ofwells and lakes and rivers ; there are placeslucky and unlucky; there are fairies inScotland and jinns in Palestine; there arehealing wells, and colours that are luckyand unlucky, and means of averting evil andof attracting good : and if such methodsare not always alike in kind, it is often themeans at hand, and not the sentiment,which differs most. A man seeking a young woman in mar- * Cf. Outer Isles, chap. xi. (A. Goodrich-Preer(. 172. HE-c O e = The Religious Life riage will ask whether she is in the habitof mentioning1 (, the name of God),over all her domestic tasks, as that alonewill secure blessing to the household. Suchthings are not of the Faith (laysa minad-din) they will carefully explain—as care-fully as the Celt, who would not for worldstell the meenister-1 that it was the colouredthreads round his cows tail and not merechange of pasture or doctors stuff whichimproved the quality of the milk. It is all folk-lore, and the degree of tolerationit receives is a matter of race and tempera-ment, as well as of civilization. We may find proof of this in the curiouscatholicity of many of the superstitions ina country which, like Palestine, has a popula-tion so varied from the religious point ofview, which is not only Moslem, Jewish,and Christian, but almost every subdivisionof these three religions as well. There arecertain superstitions which are accepted byall, others which are of
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