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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... exceed sixty . * I received these statements from a Tatar sacerdatal , or secretary of the land tribunal , and am therefore disposed to believe them correct . B The whole population of the Cri- mea , including all NOTES ...
... exceed sixty . * I received these statements from a Tatar sacerdatal , or secretary of the land tribunal , and am therefore disposed to believe them correct . B The whole population of the Cri- mea , including all NOTES ...
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... believe , very slight : he attends the house of the bride's father , and asks at her window , whe- ther she consents to the marriage . If she answers in the affirmative , he says some short ejaculatory prayer , blesses the couple in the ...
... believe , very slight : he attends the house of the bride's father , and asks at her window , whe- ther she consents to the marriage . If she answers in the affirmative , he says some short ejaculatory prayer , blesses the couple in the ...
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... 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 body , cut off its head , or take out its heart . I once inquired of a ...
... 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 body , cut off its head , or take out its heart . I once inquired of a ...
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... believe , ” said he , " that none are so bad as that " some good may not be found in " them , aud that the soul will only ❝ remain in Hell till it has expiated " the sins committed in this life , or " until Mahomet has made sufficient ...
... believe , ” said he , " that none are so bad as that " some good may not be found in " them , aud that the soul will only ❝ remain in Hell till it has expiated " the sins committed in this life , or " until Mahomet has made sufficient ...
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... believe the only strong liquor which they are allowed , is cal- led booza ; it is made either from rice or millet , and with this , it is said , they occasionally get much intoxicated ; but the vice of drunkenness is very rare among the ...
... believe the only strong liquor which they are allowed , is cal- led booza ; it is made either from rice or millet , and with this , it is said , they occasionally get much intoxicated ; but the vice of drunkenness is very rare among the ...
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