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RELIGIOUS ECSTASY RUNNING RIOT IN THE FAST OF RAMADAN
| Fanaticism goes to extremes among some Mahomedans, and extraordinary scenes are enacted on the occasion of certain religious ceremonies. The last ten days of the fasting month of Ramadan are specially sacred, and on the concluding day the wildest fanatics gash themselves with knives in token of mourning, and inflict the goriest tortures of flagellation on their own bodies |
IGNORANT SUPERSTITION INCREASES THE SORROW OF TRAVAIL
| For three weeks if the child is a boy, and for four if a girl, the Indian mother is ceremonially unclean, and in many homes confinement huts are put up in the yard for her accommodation. Here she must remain, touched by none of her relatives and tended only, as a rule, by an ignorant midwife. The humane woman emerging from this hovel is an English missionary nurse |