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days!; the 5th and 13th of every month less so. To avoid the 
evil that might overtake them were they to remain indoors, all 
Persians, on the 13th of the cil pah ss leave their noe and spend 
the day in the open air Fagited sun-up to sun-down. Disaster follows 
a quarrel during these mph On the last Wednesday of Safar 
boys and = ls jump over a 
O s are also taken hein birds, animals, the number of 
S a person sneezes, the hie of a threshold with the right 
or r left oe first, and many other ways. 
Persians have a firm belief in the evil eve chashm-i bad or 
chashm- ey 8 Anyone may be possessed of the evil eye without 
knowing it. Some superstitious people even say, Ma shas Allah” 
hen admiring their own countenances in a mirror, thus warding 
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off the evil effects of their own admiring eyes 
ue wards off the evil eye, and for this reason valued animals 
are adorned with beads of this cones Also the ispand, wild rue 
seed, burnt in the fire has a like virt 
Pretty children are often piceeks kept dirty and unkempt 
and are further guarded from malign influences by am ulets, ta‘viz.® 
arpets are generally woven by the tang people with some 
small Paes in the gan: to avert the evi 
range to say, a pig’ in the stable vill ‘reed off the evil eye 
from ihe horses and mules, 
Certain cities, the houses of Mullas, British Consulates, a 
stable, etc., all constiente sanctuary or bast. e writer once saw 
a soldier clinging to a big gun in the square of Kerman, declaring 
it was bast. However, in spite of his protestations he was forcibly 
removed by the Governor’s farrashes. 
The time of Nau Riz is a general holiday. People make 
picnics for 13 a and every master is supposed to present his 
1 Manhis or ; 
2 The Prbabist “aied i in the month of pat > is supposed that the Last 
Dey Me fall on the pe Wednesday of this : ‘ 2 
e Shah has the right to see every woman in the kingdom unveile 
and ree yee qpanees is s fortune: The mujtahids have the same right, bein 
= mahram 
4 In mara bda-cha shm ast, or chashm-i shar (or shim) dérad (m. ¢.): 
“this man ger the evil eye”; 7 nm shakh 3 zaban-ash sham ast (m. c.); “ this man 
Be Pte gree se snlacky things.” by writing a text, wrapping it in emt ‘ 
scan leather , which is then bound on the child’s arm, An amulet 
called filism or “ talisman.’ 
Dam-rahi, more commonly sar-rahi, is money 7 niga in charity on the 
threshold by a departing eeavelleg to insure a safe re urge 
In India some Muslim women . f rngl ae on — = . 
relative, to be expended in charity on his safely reac 
6 Tweedie meat s a wild boar being kept in ne pales ‘at ne hdaa. 
eats say se abs h of a pig is good for horses. In ‘Arabistan, pig’s flesh is 
said to be under the name of g#sfand-i Farangi. Ham in Persia is 
rometimes called gitsht-i bulbul, a name said to have been invented by 4 
telegrap 
rm of a departing 
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cage F-sayger 
The e luchis of Bampnr in Persian Baluchistan, a very 
ace to ie tae ee le aa to the Dera Ghazi Khan Frontier in India, ea 
wild pig and also foxes. 
