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it is eaten alone without bread. Thie other parts of the animal are eaten in a fixed order, which, however, varies in different tribes or even in different families. Very commonly the heart, lungs, and entrails are partaken of on the first day and the head and feet on the second. The flesh is almost universally abstained from on the first day, and in some places, and particularly in some families, even on the second day ; among the Ait Imlul, a fraction of the Ait Sadden, for instance, there are some villages where the flesh of the sacrificed animal is not cut up till the third day of the feast. It is believed that a trans- gression of the rule relating to the eating of the flesh would be followed by the death of the transgressor. The Ait Sadden say that if, on the first day, even the slightest cut was made in the flesh, liver, heart, lungs, or entrails, some evil would befall the members of the household. There are certain other restrictions to be mentioned in this connection. In the Garbiya there is a village whose inhabitants altogether abstain from eating the head of the sacrificed animal ; they say they do so for the reason that their forefathers once at the time of the Great Feast, when they were attacked by the Portuguese so suddenly that they had no time to fetch their guns, repulsed the enemy by the aid of their knives and the horns of the sheep which had been slaughtered just before. Among the Ait Waryagal children are not allowed to eat the throat, and it is believed that, if two boys should eat together the same eye, they would quarrel. The At Ubahti maintain that, if a man should eat the nose, he would be found out in case he committed theft. Among the Ait Nder women are prohibited from eating the tongue ; but this prohibition also refers to any other sheep or goat, and seems to be due to fear lest the eating of the tongue should make them too talkative. What remains of the meat is made into kaddid}'^ that is, the

^^TheUlad Bu-'Aziz call such meat l-geddid, the Braber of the Ait Sadden tikaddidin, those of the Ait Yusi asdwar, and the Sluh of Aglu tagdrin.