Traditional Romanian names come from various sources. Many Romanian names come from the Romanian Orthodox calendar of saints, like Andrei or Maria. Some Romanian names are inspired by nature, like Sorin (male) and Sorina (female), which means “sun”. Other traditional Romanian names come from...
First, there were Muslim Iranians who, according to Omid, were embedded in the bazar's system of reputa- tion and acquired the companies who were sold because of supply diffi- culties or because their owners were Jewish Iranians who quit their business in the aftermath of the Islamic ...
As part of Israel's effort to gather its citizens from all over the world, the Jewish people have now largely been relocated from the area. However, their traditional wisdom and indigenous practices are left behind and become the wealth of local residents of the study area. In the five ...
During medieval times, this exclusive competency became much the province of cloistered monks, whose painstaking copying of manuscripts is typically regarded as saving, along with the work of less heralded Jewish and Islamic scholars of the period, a legacy of knowledge through the dark ages. In ...
Psalmic verses (like the Blood Verse inEzekiel 16) and extra-biblical prayers can be employed to do good works, there are a few passages which have some crossing power in them. These are taken from a very fine book on Old Testament magic calledJewish Magic & Supersition, by Joshua ...
Muricidae, commonly known as murex or rock whelks, have a long history of pharmacological use, being listed in the Materia Medica by Dioscorides in 1st Century AD, reported by Arabic scholars in 9th Century, and sold in medieval Jewish pharmacies from 11th–14th Century AD [13,21]. A ...