[Children of the Ghetto by I. Zangwill]@TWC D-Link bookChildren of the Ghetto CHAPTER XIII 4/25
He directed the woman to wrap the fish in a shroud and give it honorable burial as quickly as possible.
The funeral took place the same afternoon and a lot of people went in solemn procession to the woman's back garden and buried it with all seemly rites, and the knife with which it had been cut was buried in the same grave, having been defiled by contact with the demon.
One man said it should be burned, but that was absurd because the demon would be only too glad to find itself in its native element, but to prevent Satan from rebuking the woman any more its mouth was stopped with furnace ashes.
There was no time to obtain Palestine earth, which would have completely crushed the demon." "The woman must have committed some _Avirah_" said Karlkammer. "A true story!" said the Shalotten _Shammos_, ironically.
"That tale has been over Warsaw this twelvemonth." "It occurred when I was a boy," affirmed Belcovitch indignantly.
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