Heathens.
The Hindoes take but one Wife, and are not jea∣lous as the Mahometans, who have many; suffer∣ing their Wives to go whither they please. Their Widows cut their Hair, and live as Creatures, neg∣lected
The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ...
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- The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ...
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"The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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by themselves and others; some are am∣bitious to dye with honour in their Husband's Fu∣neral pile, and she that is thus resolved, never starts back, but goes singing to her Death; and al∣tho' not bound, yet never offers to stir out of the Flames.
The Persees in Indostan have but one Wife, who likewise is permitted to go abroad.
The Mogul one day found one of his Eunuchs kissing one of his Women,—Put her in a hole in the Ground up to her Head; there she died in tor∣ment, parch'd with the Sun, after she had lain a Day and a Night, crying out,—Ah! my Head, &c. The Eunuch, in the same place, in her sight, was cut in pieces.
The Women of Deyly are handsome, and the Gentiles very chaste; insomuch, that if the Maho∣metan Women did not by their wantonness disho∣nour the rest, the Chastity of the Indians might be proposed as an Example to the Women of the East. M. de Thevenot,—Trav. l. 3. c. 25.
The Persian Women, when they go abroad, veil their Faces. Sir Th. Herb.
The Persees severely punish Adultery and For∣nication. Mandelslo's Travels.
Haron Wathic Billak, a Turkish Chalif, kill'd himself with immoderate Venery. Hottinger.