SACRED DANCE ROUND MACHINERY.
A very interesting custom has just been carried out by the Aiab popu.ation of Tripoli. Several huge cranes for salvage work recently arrived there from Genoa, but before any of the 560 Arab workmen could be induced to start operations, the Moslem priests were summoned. Then began the celebration of an elaborate rite, during which a large number of young lambs were immolated on an altar. The new salvage plant was smeared from top to bottom by the priests with the blood of the victims, and the ceremony concluded with a sacred dance around the cranes. After this the Arabs set themselves joyfuly to work, in the assurance that the powers of evil had been effectually paralysed .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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121SACRED DANCE ROUND MACHINERY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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