Note 271 — Chapter II · KUSCOUSSOO.
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“If I have witheld the poor from his desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten with me. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep.”—Job xxxi.
“Many, of course, were the Telzemi used against the evil eye. I have selected the hand only as affording the key. The Bulla were worn by the Etruscans, from whom the Romans copied them, as protection against it. The Bulla (five in number) were likewise in use among the Arabs, but abolished by Islam. “Most of them still wear on their necks the ornaments of infancy.”—Motenabbi. These ornaments were berries of plants, سخاب—Chreath, Arabe, t. iii. p. 41.
The Phallus was also used for the same purpose.—Pliny. Three together are sculptured on polygonal walls, in the Sabine territory at Zerui; and in the Etruscan land at Todi in Umbria, &c.—Dennis, vol. ii. p. 122. Also in Lydia. See Fellows’ Lydia.