Notes Relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tatars: Written During a Four Years' Residence Among that People. With Plates |
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... attendants go with her , and she expects to be met at her carriage with as much ceremony as if she came in a state coach . The embellishments of a Tatar room are few ; it is however C warm , clean , and comfortable . The floors , THE ...
... attendants go with her , and she expects to be met at her carriage with as much ceremony as if she came in a state coach . The embellishments of a Tatar room are few ; it is however C warm , clean , and comfortable . The floors , THE ...
Page 30
... attendants ) , his first step is to obtain the consent of the father . This being accomplished , presents are sent according to the circumstances of the suitor , who now visits in the family on a footing of increased familiarity . None ...
... attendants ) , his first step is to obtain the consent of the father . This being accomplished , presents are sent according to the circumstances of the suitor , who now visits in the family on a footing of increased familiarity . None ...
Page 38
... attendants . At length , after much bustle and preparation , the court being previously cleared of all spectators , large coarse blanketing is fixed up , so as to prevent all possi- bility of her being seen , and then , wrapped in a ...
... attendants . At length , after much bustle and preparation , the court being previously cleared of all spectators , large coarse blanketing is fixed up , so as to prevent all possi- bility of her being seen , and then , wrapped in a ...
Page 47
... attendants , the girl has no chance of being married sooner than her sisters , or perhaps , if there be many of them , of getting a husband at all . Among the peasantry , how- ever , this rule is possibly dispensed with . The daughter ...
... attendants , the girl has no chance of being married sooner than her sisters , or perhaps , if there be many of them , of getting a husband at all . Among the peasantry , how- ever , this rule is possibly dispensed with . The daughter ...
Page 56
... attendants , the Mulla remains alone , and reads by the grave . The Tatars believe that the spirits of the bad walk for forty days after death . In this case , they say , it is requisite to uncover the grave , and either shoot the dead ...
... attendants , the Mulla remains alone , and reads by the grave . The Tatars believe that the spirits of the bad walk for forty days after death . In this case , they say , it is requisite to uncover the grave , and either shoot the dead ...
Common terms and phrases
Akmetchet animals attendants bagpipe beauty believe boiled bride brought Bulgarians ceremony Cimmerian Circassian clothes coarse commonly consists corn Cossack covered CRIM TATARS Crimea deceased dish distance dress favourite fifty kopeeks five roubles flocks four fruit garden at Karagoss girls Greeks hair handkerchief handsome heat Horse-racing horses husband inhabitants Kaffa kaftan Karasubazar Kertch knout known labour lamb land latter likewise married millet mountain Mulla Murza neighbourhood nerality never occasion Odessa pairs of oxen party peasant peasantry peninsula Perekop persons petack plough pood possesses prayers priest proprietor quantity remarkable residence round Russian salt scorbutic season seen Sevastopol sheep sherbet shoes silver sold sort south coast Stepp Sudac summer taboon taste Tatar sacerdatal Tatar women tenced Theodosia thousand threshing thrown tion towns trees trowsers Turkish silk twenty versts village of Karagoss wear wedding wife winter