[Sca-cooks] Spices: a thought and a question

[t.d.decker at att.net]

This has a very good chance of being true.  Moslems are required to bathe the entire body once a week (Friday before congregational prayers is suggested).  Jews use a total immersion bath (mikvah) for ritual purity.  Bathing in Inquisition Spain could have been hazardous to your health, as I believe is mentioned in A Drizzle of Honey.

Bear
-------------- Original message from "Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps" <dephelps at embarqmail.com>: -------------- 


> A further question on bathing. It is my understanding that in certain 
> locales people were afraid to bath lest they be suspected of being either 
> secret Jews or Moslems. Does anyone know if this is likely ture or false? 
> 
> Daniel 
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