 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 592 pàgines
...Saint himself appeared with a fork in his hand, which he set at the Baron's throat, saying : "If tliou void not my houses, that my pilgrims may have room,...black enough, but the blacker they be the more they arc thought of; wherefore from the day of their birth their parents do rub them every week with oil... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1894 - 678 pàgines
...cosmetic.7 And, speaking of the people of a place in Maabar (Coromandel Coast), Marco Polo says, " The children that are born here are black enough,...the images of their saints they do paint black all over."8 The question, — What characteristics of the human form are deemed beautiful ? may now be... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1908 - 904 pàgines
...smoked it and rubbed it with oil to give it a darker color.* The children that are born [in Mabaar] are black enough, but the blacker they be the more...the images of their saints they do paint black all over.' In the Malay Archipelago — the standard of perfection in color is virgin gold, and as a European... | |
 | William Crooke - 1897 - 418 pàgines
...remove the viands to be eaten by themselves " with great jollity " ; " the 1 Elliot, History, ii. 231. children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they are the more they are thought of, so that they become as black as devils " ; the way the Brahmans take... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1901 - 676 pàgines
...cosmetic.7 And, speaking of the people of a place in Maabar (Coromandel Coast), Marco Polo says, .' The children that are born here are black enough,...the images of their saints they do paint black all over." 8 The question, — What characteristics of the human form are deemed beautiful ? may now be... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 768 pàgines
...every month.*] Now, I will tell you the manner in which the Christian * Should be " yenr " no doubt. brethren who keep the church relate the story of the...the images of their saints they do paint black all over.9 They have such faith in the ox, and hold it for a thing so holy, that when they go to the wars... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1904 - 926 pàgines
...smoked it and rubbed it with oil to give it a darker color.1 The children that are born [in Mabaar] are black enough, but the blacker they be the more...the images of their saints they do paint black all over." There were forty canoes all painted an ocherous brown, which I perceived to be the universally... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pàgines
...habit did not escape the eye of Marco Polo, who, writing of Maabar * or the Coromandel Coast, says : " The children that are born here are black enough,...of sesame, so that they become as black as devils." The Bengalis believe that rubbing the child with oil and exposing it to the sun makes it able in later... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pàgines
...habit did not escape the eye of Marco Polo, who, writing of Maabar * or the Coromandel Coast, says : " The children that are born here are black enough,...of sesame, so that they become as black as devils." The Bengalis believe that rubbing the child with oil and exposing it to the sun makes it able in later... | |
 | J. Richardson Parke - 1906 - 428 pàgines
...but the blacker they are the more they are thought of; wherefore, from the moment of their birth, the parents do rub them every week with oil of sesame, so that they become black as devils. Moreover they make their gods black, and their devils white, and the images of their... | |
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The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of; wherefore from the day of their birth their parents do rub them every week with oil of sesame, so that they become as black as devils. 
