Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
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Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
The same _Turk_, while he was at Dinner, told me, that the Prior of their
Monastery was a Man famous for Sanctity and Miracles, for he would spread
his Cloak over a Lake near adjoining, and sitting on it, would row up
and down whither he pleased: And that he would strip himself naked, and
be tied to a Sheep newly kill’d, tying Arms to Arms, and Leg to Leg, and
so would be thrown into the hot Oven till the Sheep were bak’d fit to be
eaten, then he himself would be taken out without any harm at all: You
will not believe this; neither do I, only I relate what he told me; but
that part concerning the red-hot Iron I saw with my own Eyes.
And yet I must tell you, the Matter is not so much to be admired; for,
without doubt, the Fellow, when he went down into the Yard to fetch a
Stone, had fortified his Mouth, against the Violence of the Fire, with
some such Medicines as you know are to be met with; for I remember once
in the Market-place at _Venice_, I saw a Juggler take melted Lead, and
wash his Hands with it, as if it had been common Water: But enough of
this.
I told you before, that I had a little more Freedom some time before
_Rustan_’s Death, which was very grateful to me on one Account, because
it gave me an Opportunity to converse with Strangers and others which
frequented my House, whole Acquaintance might be instructive to me; and
yet this Liberty was not without its Inconvenience; it gave my Servants
opportunity to straggle abroad, and sometimes without the _Janizaries_,
and so they met with many Affronts, which cost me some trouble: I’ll
tell you of one, by which you may judge of the rest.
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