writer on the mourning for Tâ-uz (Tammuz) in Harran, v. 230
Arabs believe the soul to be in the blood, iii. 241;
avoid using the proper names for lion, leprosy, etc., iii. 400;
ancient, supposed to know the language of birds, viii. 146;
their custom as to widows, ix. 35;
their custom in regard to murder, ix. 63;
beat camels to deliver them from jinn, ix. 260
—— of Algeria, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 n. 1
—— of East Africa, their faith in an unguent of lion's fat, viii. 164