Note 29 — Chapter VI · Magic Rites as affecting the Life of Man
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Occasionally the ceremony of shaving the child’s head takes place on the 44th day after birth, the ceremony being called balik juru. A small sum, such as $2.00 or $3.00, is also sometimes presented to a pilgrim to carry clippings of the child’s locks to Mecca and cast them into the well Zemzem, such payment being called ’kêkah (ʿakêkah) in the case of a boy, and kĕrban in the case of a girl.29