Note 2715 — Chapter XIV · FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
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Among the Mohammedans of Persia like notions are found to exist. “I often saw groups of people uttering the most doleful lamentations and bedewing with their tears the dry sod which they surrounded. They imagine the dead to be capable of hearing but not of answering their plaints.” Fowler, Three Years in Persia, i. p. 31.