A guest was treated as a heavenly messenger, and was guided on his way with the kindest expressions for his welfare.
The females, as in all barbaric countries, were exposed to every indignity.

All the hard labor of life was thrown upon them.

When the husband died, the widow was compelled to cast herself upon the funeral pile which consumed his remains.

It is said that this barbarous custom, which Christianity abolished, was introduced to prevent the wife from secretly killing her husband.

The wife was also regarded as the slave of the husband, and they imagined that if she died at the same time with her husband, she would serve him in another world.