[ Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon / Giovanni Battista Belzoni ]
Mrs. Belzoni’s trifling Account of the Women of the Egypt, Nubia and Syria / Sarah Parker-Brown
Travel of Sarah Parker-Brown
File Temples - Egypt
Title
Argument with a woman called the Deviless (original source)
Short description
Sarah Parker-Brown argues with a woman called "the Deviless" because she sold her chickens full of worms.
Text on source
When she saw me coming she called her mother, thinking to frighten me; the other woman stood at a respectable distance, not daring to approach. I made the old man demand better fowls or money; the old woman abused me much, with her daughter; I thought it then time to speak in a commanding tone. I went up to them, and insisted they should speak no more. The mother, on seeing I was not to be frightened, began to cry out dreadfully, and beat herself, and fling dirt over her head, and exclaim they were lost. I left them, threatening vengeance against them if they did not send me the money or fowls.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 454
Date
1817 06 circa
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Murarotto E., "Argument with a woman called the Deviless (original source)" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2025 01 01.doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.23
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