bekhour

Updated: May 8, 2025

Afterwards they visited the tombs, and prayed to their dead relatives, propitiating their manes, and "to be restored to them and liberty at their death." The women carried chafing-dishes in their hands, on which burnt fragrantly the incense of bekhour.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846