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Bisha : the awesome fire test / / Lily Films ; produced & directed by Elia Sides, Nira Sherman-Sides ; anthropologist & consultant, Joseph Ginat.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bedouins--Social life and customs.
- Bedouins.
- Ordeal--Middle East.
- Ordeal.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1997.
- Language Note:
- This edition in an undetermined language with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- "The Bisha ceremony is the ultimate ordeal for revealing the truth. Suspects lick a white-hot iron pan with their tongues. If they are scorched, it shows they are lying: if not, they have unequivocally proven their innocence"--Original container.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
- OCLC:
- 747796393
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