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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 302 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Hanút:” this custom has become almost obsolete: the corpse is now sprinkled with a mixture of water, camphor diluted and the dried and pounded leaves of various trees, especially the “Nabk” (lote-tree or Zizyphus lotus).—Lane M. E. chapt. xxviii.

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