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13 Ιαν 1835

American Missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease observed the custom of the ‘kapnisma’ in the house of his host in Larnaca

 American Missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease observed the custom of the ‘kapnismain the house of his host in Larnaca:

This afternoon the oldest child of Mr. Grollos has taken sick; the mother seemed to feel not a little anxiety on account of it. While Lucinda and I were in there, an old woman came in with a censor filled with live coals on which were placed small sticks of wood burning – this was waved three times by the mother around the cradle, then around his head and taken away. I have not yet asked the reason of this proceeding but I suppose that it was done for the purpose of driving off evil spirits.