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Article CURIOUS PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE JEWS. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Curious Particulars Relative To The Jews.
attention to , dreaming . They believe that all dreams come to pass , according to the interpretation given them by the person to whom they tell their dream ; therefore they never communicate them to any person they do not think is a friend . They believe that an apparition has power to appear visibly , and to injure any person , who is by himself , and in the dark . That to two personsthough in the darkthe apparition has only
, , power to shew itself , but not to do them any injury . And to three persons , being all together , though in the dark , the apparition has neither the power of shewing itself ) or to injure any one of them . The li ght of a single small candle is a safeguard to a man against the power of an apparitionso as not to be injured invisibly .
, That the light of a flambeau is of equal power against an apparition , when a person is alone , as when three arc together . ' They believe in evil spirits , and call them kaytcf mayreree : they suppose that whirlwinds are occasioned by them ; that they are in ail dunghills , and heaps of rubbish ; and that they haunt the chambers of lying-in women .
Witchcraft has also a share of their belief : the power of gayin harang , or ' an evil eye ,, ' they dread very much . To guard against this , some wear a piece of parchment with cabalistic words , written on it ; some , a piece of coral , in the shape of a hand and arm ; while others carry a piece of garlick , or a bit of the apheekoman of passover . Those , who do not carry any of these charms about them , are careful of covering their forehead when they are apprehensive of any
danger from an evil eye , by any person looking at them steadily noi some time . There are some women amongst them , who pretend to cure all distempers , whicli they believe'proce . ed from an evil eye , by the sympathy of fumigation . Some part of the garment is sent to the doctress , which she holds over' some smoking materials- of her compositionmuttering some words over the garment under the
ope-, ration ; and that garment , being returned in a few minutes to the patient to wear immediately , never fails of giving relief , unless their ailment has been of too long standing , before the old woman smoked them . The usual price for smoking a child ' s cap is a shilling ; a woman ' s petticoat , two shillings ; a pair of breeches ( large size ) half a crown .
A Jew husband may be divorced from his wife , for the three following reasons : i . If she has got a stinking breath , and concealed it from him before she was married , z . If they have been married ten years , and she never proved with child . 3 . If he can prove her guilty of adultery . It is believed that the reason why a divorce can be obtained on account of barrenness in a womanisthat the intent of marriage is not
, , fulfilled ; it being , to increase and multiply . They have , besides this , a conditional bill of divorce ; which is usually given when the husband goes to any remote part of the world for a longer term than tlnee years . It was instituted b y Rabbi Raubyrine Gershon , and it is called , in Hebrew ,, get hal tynoy : it must
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Curious Particulars Relative To The Jews.
attention to , dreaming . They believe that all dreams come to pass , according to the interpretation given them by the person to whom they tell their dream ; therefore they never communicate them to any person they do not think is a friend . They believe that an apparition has power to appear visibly , and to injure any person , who is by himself , and in the dark . That to two personsthough in the darkthe apparition has only
, , power to shew itself , but not to do them any injury . And to three persons , being all together , though in the dark , the apparition has neither the power of shewing itself ) or to injure any one of them . The li ght of a single small candle is a safeguard to a man against the power of an apparitionso as not to be injured invisibly .
, That the light of a flambeau is of equal power against an apparition , when a person is alone , as when three arc together . ' They believe in evil spirits , and call them kaytcf mayreree : they suppose that whirlwinds are occasioned by them ; that they are in ail dunghills , and heaps of rubbish ; and that they haunt the chambers of lying-in women .
Witchcraft has also a share of their belief : the power of gayin harang , or ' an evil eye ,, ' they dread very much . To guard against this , some wear a piece of parchment with cabalistic words , written on it ; some , a piece of coral , in the shape of a hand and arm ; while others carry a piece of garlick , or a bit of the apheekoman of passover . Those , who do not carry any of these charms about them , are careful of covering their forehead when they are apprehensive of any
danger from an evil eye , by any person looking at them steadily noi some time . There are some women amongst them , who pretend to cure all distempers , whicli they believe'proce . ed from an evil eye , by the sympathy of fumigation . Some part of the garment is sent to the doctress , which she holds over' some smoking materials- of her compositionmuttering some words over the garment under the
ope-, ration ; and that garment , being returned in a few minutes to the patient to wear immediately , never fails of giving relief , unless their ailment has been of too long standing , before the old woman smoked them . The usual price for smoking a child ' s cap is a shilling ; a woman ' s petticoat , two shillings ; a pair of breeches ( large size ) half a crown .
A Jew husband may be divorced from his wife , for the three following reasons : i . If she has got a stinking breath , and concealed it from him before she was married , z . If they have been married ten years , and she never proved with child . 3 . If he can prove her guilty of adultery . It is believed that the reason why a divorce can be obtained on account of barrenness in a womanisthat the intent of marriage is not
, , fulfilled ; it being , to increase and multiply . They have , besides this , a conditional bill of divorce ; which is usually given when the husband goes to any remote part of the world for a longer term than tlnee years . It was instituted b y Rabbi Raubyrine Gershon , and it is called , in Hebrew ,, get hal tynoy : it must