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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re if he hap-pens to walk by the side of a Greek priest who dresses in a straightblack gown, coming to the feet, and wears on his head something thatlooks exactly like a piece of stove-pipe a foot high, covered with blackcloth. During the Carnival days one meets long lines of carriages, filledwith people wearing masks and dressed in every imaginable fashion.There are also trains of donkeys, whose riders are so disguised as torender them more like donkeys than men. One character at the Carnival, we were told, was a little boy, whoactually hid himself inside of a goats skin, head and all; and so lookedlike a veritable goat, walking on his hind feet, with a belt of bellsabout his waist. He was trying to make himself into a Satyr of theolden time. In contrast with such a scene one may hear the low, monotonousdirge of the priests, and, aware that a funeral procession is coming,step one side to see this peculiar spectacle. There is no long lineof carriages, as with us ; but every one walks.
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THE ATHENIAN CAKNIVAL. A THENS. 279 First come the priests in white robes, chanting a funeral dirge.Then follows a man bearing upright the coffin-lid, which is white andornamented with a large cross and artificial flowers. After this walkthe bearers with the open coffin, thus exposing the deceased to thegaze of every one. Lastly come the friends and the curious crowd,who always follow. A hearse or catafalque is sometimes used, but the body is not oftenput into it until after the city limits are passed. If we go out to the cemetery, we find that on the new-made gravesearthen jars have been broken, as a symbol that the silver cordisloosed, the golden bowl is broken. And now, after having wandered somewhat up and down the streetsof Athens till we are too weary to enjoy more, we start for home. We step into the market a moment, to take a hungry look at theoranges and lemons and figs and dates and olives and Smyrna raisinsthat lie about in great confusion. We need not remain hungry, how-ev

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