Show PUT GREAT FAITH IN C Belief Is la Part of Arabian Life and Even Europeans Come to Take Tako Them Seriously Fire in your your- eye ec says the Arab Arab- when he suspect suspects you ou of putting the evil eye ee on on him him bim and HI he lie mechanically spreads the five fingers of ot hl hund haul Fire in your eye cJe Is a n little engraved engraved en en- n. n graved lI hand It It Is flat and about abou two Inches Inches' S lon long and looks much U Ilk Ilka like e ea a conventional lotus or lotus lolU or Of acanthus leaf such as you see In the design of tern tern- pie capitals at Karnak It was sold sol to tb m me by a person 1 I had only read about before In fairy tales a tales a buo hooded boodet ed crone If you lu have ve on you within of your lingers fingers this little silver silve hAnd band you need Deed Ue d not lIot seriously fear the evil eye You Yuu Y u mechanically cha touch the dangling charm and all ull immediate danger danger dan dan- ger is averted I met my hooded crone in an oasis and believe me or not as you ou please she was c carrying a bundle of on her shoulders 1 have hae ne er neverSeen seen anyone look more mare like u a witch She offered on me uie si Jl quantity of silver jingling tIngling things thing sonic some bangles which h I 1 wish I 1 hud lied bought The king of ot Algeria was ns time and he lie picked out Fire Fife In your C eye eo That of or course was enough und otlO after a n period devoted to business pure and simple 1 I became the possessor of ot this rather uncanny little v. We IVe have hae In England a cold fish winded minded w way of affecting to laugh a at what we are 11 pleased to call local superstition su su- su Let me nie tell you ou that this point of view vies will not work III In Africa What Is Is obviously ob a childish tion in or Newcastle I Is hi sober reality under this Immense blue sky You can cnn disbelieve a lot of truth you ou do not understand as you strap hang homeward but yo you will wIH learn to believe everything e In Africa a. And by hy the measure of ot your our capacity for tor belief bellet will wIH your mental outlook h be he judged In Algeria especially In the th south on the skirts of the de desert ert ant antIn and andIn andin In Tunisia charms of ot all sorts abound A chameleons chameleon's skull is a n most valuable specific against the manifold evil splIts spirits spir its which punt oam the air searching for easy game gume and in lu most lIIa villages s you yoi will wIH see u Ii luul skull clamped to toa to toa toa a housetop Or Ur on oh a ti tree tn t Who are we ive of the dark arl frozen north to laugh at such things who know nothing of them diem If they do o nothing more inure and this tills Is pure supposition they at 8 t all events e bring comfort to tho those c who believe bellec in them theiu Is that nothing John nothing John Prioleau in London Dally Daily Mail |