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out a, whole handful of them. One day one of thefe blades handling his 
Vipers in this manner in the quarter of the French, they brought a Pullet 
and made one of theVipers bite it, which immediately thereupon died ; fo that 
it evidently appeared, that the Moor had fomething about him which preferved 
him againft their Poyfon. But I cannot tell what to fay of a Moorilh Woman 
who lives in a corner clofe by the quarter of France, and pulls worms out of ^/^^^^'"^'^ 
Childrens Ears. When a Child does nothing but cry, and that they know it p,,ns"''worms 
is ill, they carry it to that Woman, who laying the Child on its lide upon one of Chil- 
her knee, fcratches the Ear of it, and then Worms like thofe which breed in drcns Eafs. 
mufty weeveiy Flower, feemtofall out of theChilds Ear; then turning it on 
the other fide, (he fcratches the other Ear, out of which the like Worms drop 
alfo J and i;i all there may come out ten or twelve, which flie wraps up in a 
Linnen-Rag, and gives them to thofe that brought the Child to her, who 
keep them in that Rag at home in their Houfe ^ and when (he has done fo, fhe 
gives them back the Child, which in rejility cries no more. She once told mc 
that fhe performed this by means of fome words, that fhe fpake. There 
was a French Phyfician and a great Naturalift there, who attentively beheld 
this, and told me that he could not conceive how it could be done-, but that 
he knew very well, that if a child had any of thefe Worms in its head, it 
would quickly die. In fo much, that the Moors and other Inhabitants of 
Caire, look upon this as a great Vertue, and give her every time a great many 
Afaidtm. They fay, that it is a fecret which hath been long in the Family. 
There are children every day carried to her, roaring and crying, and fuch as 
would fee the thing done, need only to follow them, provided they be not 
Mufulman Women who carry them, for then it would coft an Avanie-^ but 
when they are Chriftian or Jewifli Women, one may eafily enter, and give a 
few Maidws to that Worm-drawer. The Language that is fpoken in lE^ypt 
is the Arabick, which is a dialed of the Hebrew, but very copious, and the -j-j^g Arab ck 
moft ample Language that ever 1 heard fpoken, and is indeed ufed in a great Laaguage.' 
many Gountreys ; it is very difficult to be pronounced, becaufe it has many gut- 
turaljwords ; and therefore when the Turks at Conft amino fie would make thetn- 
felves merry, they make Arabs fpeak that Language before them, and yet it 
is their holy Language for their Alcorariy and all their Prayers are in Arabick ; 
it is a common faying with them. That the Tnrl^ijl} Language fervesin this World ^ 
the Arahtck^ Jhall be fpoken in Paradife^ and in Hell the Terfian, which never- 
thelefs is a fine Tongue, and makes the greatefl part of the Turkifh Poems 
and Songs ^ but feeing they extreamly hate the Perfims^ they revile every 
thing that concerns them. 
CHAP. LXXVI. 
Of the Circumcifon of the Moorifh Females and of 
the Santos of /Egypt. 
TH E Moors are Mahometans, but they have Ibme Superftitions, which rircumcifio 
the Turks have not, for the Moors Circumcife their Daughters, of Moorilh 
cutting off a little bit of that which is called the Nymphe, and that Gircum- Girls, 
cifion is performed by Women. The Turks do not do fo, they only Circum- 
cife their Boys, As the Moors are great Hypocrites, fo have they many 
forts of Si.nto's among them. They have dancing Dervi^ies, oî^^^hom I wrote 
when I was at Cw/?<2«f?«^'p/e, bin: they have a great many others befides thefe, 
whom they much honour; among the relt, there are fome as horrible as the 
Dancers are pleafant ; I faw none of them at ConfiAntmople^bzQmïz they perform 
K k their 
