. Fig. 3.—tomb of the sheikh Aiuiri. 1,1/,..;, ,,_,.i, HI. SHEIKH ON THE LEFT. One of the most celebrated Moslim saints in Egypt is the Sheikh Ahmed el-Bedawi of Tanta, where a great mulid is celebrated in his honour every year. It lasts for a week and is attended by thousands of people from all over the country. Huge sacrifices of sheep and oxen are made at the saint's tomb on this occasion, while his devotees seize the opportunity of invoking his aid for every possible want, and for protection from every form of evil fortune. A False Wife Shown Up The following story connecte
. Fig. 3.—tomb of the sheikh Aiuiri. 1,1/,..;, ,,_,.i, HI. SHEIKH ON THE LEFT. One of the most celebrated Moslim saints in Egypt is the Sheikh Ahmed el-Bedawi of Tanta, where a great mulid is celebrated in his honour every year. It lasts for a week and is attended by thousands of people from all over the country. Huge sacrifices of sheep and oxen are made at the saint's tomb on this occasion, while his devotees seize the opportunity of invoking his aid for every possible want, and for protection from every form of evil fortune. A False Wife Shown Up The following story connected with the sheikh was recounted to me this year by one who vouches for its truth. There was once a darwlsh (a member of a Muhammadan religious order) who lived in a village near Tanta, and whose custom it was to pay a yearly visit to the tomb of the Sheikh Ahmed el-Bedawi on the occasion of his mulid. The darinsh always took sheep and oxen with him to slay at the sacred tomb, besides bringing other offerings. One year, when the time of the null id approached, he found himself without any money, and he did not know what to do about his yearly visit to Tanta ; for how could he approach that holy shrine without his customary gifts ? The darwlsh was married, but his wife did not love him, and she longed to become the wife of a rich neighbour. The darwlsh told his wife of the difficulty he was in, owing to his poverty, and when she had heard all, she thought to herself that now was her opportunity to get rid of her present husband and to secure the richer man. Accordingly she went to the rich neighbour privately, told him of the difficulty they were in, and suggested that he should lend them one hundred pounds, on the solemn promise from her husband that he would pay it back on the day that he returned home from Tanta. In order to make this promise secure, the husband was to swear by the triple divorce that he would fulfil it. Having satisfactorily hatched this plot, she returned
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