Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues...
...that's why the tree...
...Hari Raya Haji holiday (20 days before the Moslem New Year), they went on a rampage again. Another six bomohs came, but after prayers, incantations and trances, announced that the evil spirit was much greater than they. One bomoh decided that the spirit must lodge in a certain rubber tree, ordered the tree cut down. Five days later, the hysterics broke out once more. Obviously, decided the other bomohs, the tree spirit had been made even angrier when it lost its home...
...wall and giving the girls a little more freedom and fun. But just in case medical science failed, it also took the precaution of proclaiming 30 straight days of prayer to ask protection against those frightful whatever-they-were who may or may not have lived in that rubber tree...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...