Peasant life in the Holy Land . h the bloodthus sprinkled on the doorposts, while some hadin addition two of the victims feet stuck in a holein the door, these being left the whole year till thenext feast comes round. In two or three mixed hamlets (Moslems andChristians) with which I am acquainted, the Chris-tians, either just before Lent or at Easter, kill agoat or sheep, and put the blood on the upperlintel in the form of a cross, and on the side-postsin spots. These villages are all situated in thedistrict known as that of the Beni Zeid, whoseMoslem inhabitants always observe this custom at
Peasant life in the Holy Land . h the bloodthus sprinkled on the doorposts, while some hadin addition two of the victims feet stuck in a holein the door, these being left the whole year till thenext feast comes round. In two or three mixed hamlets (Moslems andChristians) with which I am acquainted, the Chris-tians, either just before Lent or at Easter, kill agoat or sheep, and put the blood on the upperlintel in the form of a cross, and on the side-postsin spots. These villages are all situated in thedistrict known as that of the Beni Zeid, whoseMoslem inhabitants always observe this custom atthe feast of the DthahUjch, as described custom seems to be a very local one, butwhether it has been derived by the Moslems fromthe Christians or vice versa I cannot say. In addition to this feast, several religious seasonsor festivals are observed by the INloslems with moreor less strictness. The most noteworthy of theseis Ramadthan, or the month of fasting. In somerespects it is a misuse of words to call this period. e2 in w M O :^u ea RAMADTHAN 23 one of fasting, as in the case of the well-to-doINIohammedans they simply turn night into day,and throughout the month have a nightly feast onthe daintiest dishes that Arab cookery can the poorer classes, but especially with theFellahin, the case is very different. The Korandirects that during Ramadthan neither meat nordrink shall pass the INIoslems lips from the timethat it becomes light enough to distinguish betweena white thread and a black one, until sunset. The Fellahin are, for the most part, very strictin their observance of this fast (much more so,indeed, than the townspeople), and when thismonth falls in the hot season, when the days areat the longest and the nights at the shortest, it isa very hea^y burden to them. ^lore particularlyis this true of the prohibition to drink water,especially in harvest-time or when there is otherhard labour to be undergone. In Jerusalem andother towTis a camion is fire
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