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MEDIAEVAL TRAITS. SI
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said he , generously . It appears , however , that lie spent so much liberality on this determinationthat he had none left for his wife
, after they were married . He was a person who considered a great number and variety of Deities necessary for the spiritual welfare of
a sincere heathen , and a belief in these to be an essential component of his wife . He accordingly made a most immoderate demand on
his lady ' s powers of credulity , insisting that she should immediately put implicit faith in the whole of the persons of his Polytheogony ,
viz : —Jovin , Plotoun , Mahoun , Tirmagaunt , Appolin , Astrot , and Jubiter . She promised to believe in them all , to avoid the alternative
of being " spilled " herself , and of having her father and mother " spilled" too . The Soudan was very much gratified , and
immediatel Now all y held this a was tournament very pleasant . for all parties concerned , but even
Soudans are liable to disappointments , and this Soudan was no extion to the general rule . He had a great desire to have a
di cep gnified son and heir , and when he Was informed of the probable appearance in the world of a little
stranger" Joly lie wax and wylde . "
But , alas for the disadvantages of Heathenesse ! When the youth made his debut on the stage of life , it was found that he was
not the right shape . << lymes hedde hit non ,
" But Withouten as a roonde blod of or bon nesche . icore , The Ladwas wo as her wolde d
Hit hedde y nouther neose nor eiye , , But lay still as a ston . "
He was , in fact , globular . The Soudan , being rather addicted to jumping at conclusionslaid the misfortune at the door of the
, Soudana , asserting that the whole affair was the result of her not having faith enough in his Theosophy . It was clearly not from any
want of faith on his part , for it was a common practice with him to " cuss his ddes arowe ; " which signifies that he kissed them , not
that he swore go at themalbeit the latter form of worship might have proved very acceptable , to them on the principle that like seeks like .
After some matrimonial squabbling between the spherical young ' s parentsit was arranged between them that his father
person should first apply , to Mahomed , etc ., to develop him , and that if that course of procedure had no good result , his mother should baptise
him . Accordingly the Polytheist carried the infant into his temple , and laid it on the altaror " auter . " Pie then " heold up his hondes
tweyn , _" during as long , a time as it "would take a man to walk five miles—say an hour and twenty minutes ; and while in this
supplicatory attitude continued to pray with vigor .
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Mediaeval Traits. Si
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/51/
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