This custom is associated with Easter baptism, when a new life was assumed by the baptized, clothed in righteousness as a garment.
The Christian symbolism of this custom is supposed to relate to the offering, by the Wise Men, of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus.
The old people and the young joined in this custom, which they said was done so as not to 'disturb the earth.
This custom is still maintained, and 'sowling day' fills many a poor woman's bag.
A traveller, in consequence of this custom, is exposed to the inconvenience of making a special journey if he has anything to attend to in those places.
This custom of pressing and kneading is very common in India, as well as in all Oriental countries, especially after the bath; and Europeans also willingly allow themselves to be operated upon.
According to this custom a community yearly appoints one of its citizens to devote himself wholly to the gods on behalf of the rest.
This custom is yet confined to certain classes, and has been adversely criticised.
In Illustration of this custom I have to relate what follows.
This custom, which is common to the uncivilized people of many parts of the world, is probably among the strangest ever invented by the human brain.
This custom, he says, is borrowed from China, and is general throughout Western Yun-nan.
This custom is described in much the same way by the Arabo-Persian Zakariah Kazwini, by Ludovico Varthema, and by Alexander Hamilton.
This custom of mourning for the period of thirty days corresponds to that formerly observed by the Natchez.
To this custom, which is not confined to the Iroquois, is doubtless to be ascribed the barrows and bone-mounds which have been found in such numbers in various parts of the country.
This custom is most frequently followed in milk supply plants.
I think myself that the prevalence of this custom is a strong proof that those nations having originally proceeded from the same stock.
I think my Self that the provalence ofthis custom is a Strong proof of those nations haveing originally proceeded from the Same Stock.
Footnote 607: This custom of representing gods and heroes of larger stature than ordinary folk prevails almost universally in the Egyptian monuments and sculptures.
Footnote 571: In illustration ofthis custom of mourners, cf.
The Ecclesfield accounts contain the following entry relating to this custom:-- "1641.
Numerous reasons have been assigned for the origin of this custom, which we need not now enumerate.
This custom is still preserved, or has been revived, in many parishes, and at Oxford the boys may be seen on Ascension Day bearing white willow-wands, and beating the bounds of some of the old city parishes.
This custom lingered on after the Reformation, and until recent times the practice of going a-palming, or gathering branches of willow, on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, has continued.
In remembrance of this custom, the bones are still brought to the field, but the barbarous use of them has for many years been abolished.
At this custom-house or mart is a Lapcha collector, appointed by Yu-kang-ta.
The origin of this custom is attributed to two causes.
In the annals of China we read the explanation of this custom: [11] For this description, also, I am largely indebted to the writings of Dr.
This custom is kept up to-day, and is carried out even in foreign houses.
It used to be a common thing in the country villages to see men and women bathing together in large tanks, but as Westerners disapproved of this custom, a few years ago an order went forth that men and women bathing together must put on suits.
This custom is not considered an unalloyed blessing by the Manchu people, and many of them would gladly avoid registering their daughters if only they dared.
You do not appreciate the advantages of this custom of ours.
Their aversion to this custom is well illustrated in the following incident: In one of the girls' schools in Peking there was a beautiful child, the daughter of a Manchu woman whose husband was dead.
No man can say how ancient is this custom, nor yet the beginnings in which it had its origin.
This custom, he said, was well known to the marauders, who took care to avail themselves of it, so soon as their captives had been secured.
Both sexes wear it short; I saw but two exceptions to this custom, and the most of them combed it upwards.
This custom of making presents before they receive any, is common with the natives of the South Sea isles; but I never saw it practised in New Zealand before.
The man of whom I made these enquiries, as well as some others, took some pains to explain the whole of this custom to us; but we were not masters enough of their language to understand them.
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