falassa

Updated: August 27, 2026

The situation of Cinrog it is impossible to ascertain; but it must have been some part of India, where voluntarily burning alive is still practised, but only by the widows of the higher casts. Benjamin here obviously speaks of the Jews in the mountains of Abyssinia, still known there under the name of Falassa.

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