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Neither do I parade mezuzoth on my doors. I humbly beg you to recollect that I am not a carefully-printed perambulating advertisement of Christianity." Raising her face, Edna looked steadfastly at him, and pain, compassion, shuddering dread filled her soft, sad eyes. "Well, you are reading me. What is the verdict?" A long, heavily-drawn sigh was the only response.
King suggests that such tablets were hung up in the houses of the Babylonians whenever a plague broke out. One is reminded of the mezuzoth, the metallic or wooden cases, attached to the doorposts of their houses by the Jews, and which originally served a similar purpose. Tallqvist, Assyr. Beschwörungsserie Maklu, p. 115, suggests that the 'veiled bride' may be a name of some goddess of the night.
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