Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness.

  • Holderness, Mary.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sown^ reaped^ and carried home, and it is seldom that the proprietor of the soil takes tithe of the priest. The language used in the mosques is the Arabic, which the clergy learn to read without being able to trans- late, only having a general idea as to the tendency of each prayer. The Effendis (a higher class of the priest- hood) are doubtless more learned, but it is considered sufficient for a Mulla of the smaller villages to be able to read, and to understand a few of the mysteries of their religion. Not even the smallest village is without a minis- ter ; and mistaken as these poor peo- ple are in the objects of their belief, and in the observance of senseless