Arabian Gulf &1E22;iyya biyya, Jewish Babylonian farfisa, Christian Sicilian sepolcri: Popular Customs with a Common Origin?

The old Gulf popular custom of &1E22;iyya biyya, in which children grew pot plants during the last ten days of the Islamic pilgrimage month of Dhū 'l-Hijja, and then threw them into the sea, a stream, or a well (the important thing is that it had to be into water) on the night before the Fe...

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Main Author: Holes, Clive (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2004
In: Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2004, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-287
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