CHAPTER XXV. 
GREEGREES. 
The superstitions of the people afford 
them a ready explanation for many things 
otherwise mysterious to them, and yet ex- 
plainable upon natural principles by an 
enlightened mind. They- believe that the 
power of the Greegree, the work of witches, 
and the doings of evil spirits, produce many 
phenomena in the physical world which 
are the results of natural causes. 
Greegrees are of different sizes, shapes and 
of various kinds of material. Mahommedans 
are the great Greegree makers, though they 
are made by Pagans also. A Mahommedan 
Greegree is a piece of paper, with a few 
Arabic letters and characters upon it, in- 
cased in leather or cloth. When used it is 
suspended to some part of the body, usually 
the neck. A Pagan Greegree is a few 
leaves, or a little clay, or sand, or a pebble, 
or bark of a tree, incased in a cloth, or tied 
together. It is fastened to the wrists ? 
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