Part One – Life | 44 umbilical corn has been cut, and corn is scattered round about . this procedure is intended to drive away the Karina, that is the child’s evil brother and sister from the spirit realm, that always makes its appearance and torments the poor child of humanity till it sickens and fells into convulsions, which are therefore also called karina ( E . Klunzinger, Upper Egypt, its People and Products, New York 1878, p . 9 ) . Furthermore, Morgenstern ( ibid . p . 61 ) bring a description of a circumcision from a . Musil, Arabia Retraea, Vienna 1907 - 1908, pp . 84 et seq . , according to which : During the circumcision the related ] to the boys to be circumcised [ women and girls stand behind the closed tent, beat upon the tent with their crooked knives, and let the shrill cries resound, in order to protect the circumcised boys from the evil eye . Incidentally, in that same description we read that after the circumcision : the mother or nearest female relative lays the hea...
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