[5] According to the Shi'ahs, Zainu-l-'Abidin obtained from Yazid, after forty days, the head of Husain, and brought it to Karbala. They deny that the head is at Cairo and the body at Karbala. Others say that the head was sent to Medina, and buried near the grave of Fatimah.—Burton, Pilgrimage, ii. 40; Ockley, History of the Saracens, 412, 415 note.
[6] Mitha, 'sweet'.
[7] Shirmal, bread made with milk.
[8] Baqirkhani, a kind of crisp bread or cake, like piecrust, made of milk, sugar, and flour.
[9] Chapati, the griddle cake, the standard food of the people.
[10] No food should be cooked in the house of a Musalman during the
forty days of mourning. Sir J.G. Frazer thinks that this is due to
the risk of eating the ghost clinging to the food (Journal
Anthropological Institute, xv. (1886) 92 ff.).
[11] Missi, from mis, 'copper', because copper-filings form its
chief ingredient, to which are added myrobalan, gall-nuts, vitriol, &c.
The custom is based on the Arab admiration for the rose-red colour of
the inner lip.—Burton, A Thousand Nights and A Night, iii. 365.
[12] Kajal.
[13] Nath, a love-token presented to the bride by the bridegroom. The very mention of it is considered indelicate.
[14] They generally adopt an odd number.