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offence to blow the nose in their presence*, chap. 
They detest the Turhs, because they consider 
them as usurpers of their country. The curious 
superstition of dreading the injurious conse- 
quences of a look, from an evil, or an envious 
eye, is not pecuUar to the Ai-ahs. The Turhs, 
and many other nations, particularly the Irish\ 
the Highlanders of Scotland, and the people of 
Cormvall, entertain the same notion. But the 
u4rabs even extend it to their cattle, whom they 
believe liable to iMi's, fascination. The Antients, 
according to Virgil^ entertained a similar fan- 
tasy. To relate all that may be said concerning 
(2) See D'Arvieux's Voyage, />. 171. D'Arviel'X says, that to 
Lreak wind before an Arab is deemed an act of infamy: " 11 est 
sou vent arriv^ que ceux qui avoient eu ce mallieur, ont ^te obliges de 
s'absenter, et de passer ch6s d'autres peuples, pour n'^tre pas exposes 
aux hu^es, et Jl toutes les suites il'une m^chante rc^putation." Hid, 
p. 172. 
Xtnophon, in the beginning of the Cyropadia, speaks thus of the 
Persians : A/ffVjc* /«£v y^" «■''' **' •''"' Icn Tli^aat;, ku) to aTorrrutiv, xai 
re ofreftirrta-fai, ko.) to ^uV^j,- fmrTilis (paiviaCai' etiffp^^av Se 'in, xai to loira, 
vrtv Oavipiv yiv'ifffai, -/! ToZ Du^riffai inxa, it xa) tiWov tivo; toiovtov. And in 
the beginning of tl)e 8th boolt be says : 'E^iA£ts}« %t [o Kfr'goy] xa) us 
(tiiSi trrvovrts, finTi a.'TofiVTTOfi.iviii (pavt^o) Jsv" (K-/jSt fciTa.trT^t(poftivoi Wt Slav 
finhvost ^i olTiv Savi^aZ,ovTi;. Huvtcc Ti tkvtx oiito (p'i^iiv ti tis to lutxaTa- 
A^ovfiTOTi^ovs (paivKrSu.! roli a^^ofiivotl' 
(.3) A remarkable instance of this superstition vras stated in 
evidence, during a trial for murder, at the Assizes for the County of 
Muyo, in Ireland ; Tuesday, Augmt 13, 1816. 
(4) " Nescio, quis teneros ocuUis niihi fascinat agnos." 
Eel. iii. 103. 
