[83] Rich: Residence in Kurdistan, vol. II, p. 69.

[84] Al-Mašrik, vol. II, p. 396.

[85] Ibid, vol. III, p. 493.

[86] Fraser: Ibid; Rich, ibid.

[87] Badger: Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. I, p. 111; Fraser, ibid., p. 285.

[88] Al-Mašrik, ibid, p. 36.

‘Abdišŭ was at one time bishop of Sinjar; cf. Fardaisa de ‘Eden, ed. by B. Cardaḥi, Beirut, 1889, p. 5.

[89] Ibid, pp. 56, 110, 832.

[90] Ibid. This rite is practiced by the Yezidis of Ḫalitiyeh, a dependency of Diarbeker, where the Yezidis are few in number.

[91] Southgate: A Tour Through Armenia, etc., vol. II, p. 179.