 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 592 pàgines
...Christ.4 The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they arc thought of; wherefore from the day of their birth...have such faith in the ox, and hold it for a thing * Should be " year" no doubt. so holy, that when they go to the wars they take of the hair of the wild-ox,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1894 - 678 pàgines
...Maabar (Coromandel Coast), Marco Polo says, " The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of ;...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
...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 they are thought of;...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... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1901 - 676 pàgines
...Maabar (Coromandel Coast), Marco Polo says, .' The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of ;...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
...converted much people to the faith of Jesus Christ.4 The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of;...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
...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 they are thought of;...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 - 594 pàgines
...writing of Maabar * or the Coromandel Coast, says: "The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of;...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
...of Maabar * or the Coromandel Coast, says : " The children that are born here are black enough, but the blacker they be the more they are thought of ;...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... | |
 | Joseph Richardson Parke - 1909 - 504 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. 
