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Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
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sowed their fields withgrain; but they werenearly as barbarous astheir Scythian ances-tors. They fougfrl withbows and poisoned ar-rows, and long nooseswith which they Lassoedtheir enemies. Whena chieftian died, they killed a couple of slaves to burn on his funeralpyre, thai tie mighlhave an attendant whenhe reached the otherworld. The Arabian writerwas presenl at one ofthese horrible funerals.For several days, hesays, t he friends of t hedeceased bewailed him * 9boupof bttmiaws. and Intoxicated themselves over his corpse. Then the men-servants wereasked which of them would l>e buried with his master. (me consented, andwas immediately strangled. The same question was asked of the women
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22 Persons and Places in Europe. servants, and one of them offered herself. She was then washed, adorned,and treated like a princess; did nothing bnt drink and sing until theappointed day. Then the dead man was laid in a boat, with part of hisarms and his garments. His favorite horse (was slain, with other domes-tic animals, and put in the boat, with the servant who had been strangled.The young maid-servant then took off her jewels, and, with a glass ofkvass in her hand, sang her death-song, which she wonld gladly have pro-longed, bnt the old woman who had been appointed to kill her— the deathangel she was called—ordered her to drink quickly and enter the boatwhere her dead master lay. At this she turned pale and tried to draw back, bnt the old woman seizedher by the hair and dragged her in. Then the men began to beat theirshields, so that the noise wonld drown her cries, which if the other slavegirls heard might make them nnwilling to offer themselves for their masterswhen the ti

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