Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the sound of musical instruments, out of the town, to perform their devotions, having their feet wrapped in white linen, being no longer permitted to touch the bare ground, because they are then considered as sacred. No wo- man or slave, however, is obliged thus to devote herself. Yet both those who have desired to submit to this bar- barous custom and not been accepted, and such as have not offered themselves, are alike shut up for the remainder of their lives and not allowed the sight of man. Should any one find means to escape from her prison and be after- wards taken, she is immediately dis- patched with the dagger, and her body, after being dragged through the streets,