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BEARDED PRIESTS OF SAMARIA'S ANCIENT SECT
| These steadfast-looking priests are the leaders of their dwindling band of followers, in whom they inculcate the traditions of the past and the hope — the coming of their Messiah — of the future. This advent they reckon to be due six thousand years after the Creation, according to their own date for this occurrence. All images and pictures are held in abhorrence as idolatry |
SIGHTLESS EYES THAT CLAIM TO FORESEE THE FUTURE
| Divination as a lucrative business is firmly established throughout the Orient. Crystal-gazing is one well-known method, and sand-diviners ply a good trade in many Eastern bazaars. A variant of sand divination is practised by this blind fortune-teller in Khokan, capital of the Ferghana province of Turkistan; he predicts the future of his clients by the disposition of little heaps of pebbles |