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8/7/2019 Magical Beliefs From Palestine
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Magical beliefs from Palestine
Gaza became the largest concentration camp in the history of mankind which lastsfor over 40 years. With the world watching, Israel expelled millions of Palestiniansfrom their homes, continuing their Nazi policy and killing innocent people withoutregard whether it is a small child, a woman or an old man. For them the Palestiniansare a people that need to perish and without a doubt in that regard they are copyingHitler and Nazi Germany- anyone who watches the news will notice that Israelusually kills ten Palestinians, with no regards of the gender or age, for every soliderthey lose.
It is ironical that the people who are presenting themselves as victims of theholocaust are committing the same atrocities over the Palestinian people. The once"holly land" is everything but holly, today it is a land filled with blood of the worstcrimes and everyday killings. The Israelites are no longer a people who experiencegenocide but a people who commit genocide.
But no matter what Palestine is still alive and breathing. We need to write and talk about Palestine and its people and we should never let the memory of Palestine fadefrom existence.
The Palestine people as well as the rest of the Arab world have a rich store of folklore and beliefs. The most famous beliefs relate to spellbound eyes and theirdetrimental effect on people, especially children. According to the beliefs in Palestine,if a child falls ill suddenly after a visit from guest and starts crying for no reason andstarts to reject food, it is then believed that it had fallen prey to the guest'sspellbound eyes.
The ritual of annulling spellbound eyes is usually done by the mother or some oldlady surrounded by a couple of curious women that are anxiously observing theritual.
To neutralize foreign evil the mother needs to take three fingers of flour and salt,that need to be clean for this occasion, and repeat the following magical formula:
„Bism al-ain, bismi en-nadra, bism el-hasud“. And then throw the salt and flour in ametal container filled with hot coals adding to that mixture some dust from fourrooms, seven grains of barley, a piece of Alum, and then she takes one hair from allthe present inhabitants of the house („min atarha“). If one knows for sure who hasspellbound the child, then it is only necessary to take a piece of thread from thatperson. To the hot coal a couple of seed of incense are added and one needs to waitfor the thick fog to form in which the child will be bathed while pronouncing themagical formula. While holding the metal container (bassat nar) the woman that isconducting the ritual circles around the child saying: „Smallah alek! Hawattak ballahudachiltak lallah...“.
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The magical formula is repeated three times and then the woman dips hands into aprepared vessel full of water and shaking it off in the direction of the fire shepronounces: „Ih! Intefi ja uwenw bin nuwere! En-nar lamakanha wel-ain Allahla'anha“. If squeaking sound are heard coming from the fire, that is deemed as agood sign-the effect of spellbound eyes is disappearing. Animated by what she hearsthe woman continues with the pronunciation of another magical formula to neutralizethe evil: „Takhat, sahat. Ain el-adu rahat kusch! El-ebid“.
But if the effect is not forthcoming then the present women whisper and concludethat the spellbound eyes have resisted the power of the fire. Because of thisrevelation everyone is awaiting for the fire to burn down and for all the ingredientsto melt and for it to cool down and form some kind of a figure, mostly it isdetermined who caused the child to be spellbound, the evil starts to lose its power.
A detrimental item for spellbound eyes is garlic, as is believed in Palastine, whosesmell keeps away most evil from human beings.