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  She tied it around my wrist, muttering a prayer under her breath to avoid calling the attention of demons. Then she said: “Look, don’t play with it. Your ancestress each spun one [...]

  The women sang while rinsing clothes and linens in the fountain. At last, they picked their washing in large baskets, and left, except for a mother and her daughter who were cleaning wool. They [...]

      Sitting on the threshold in the midday sun, they threw lentils in a bowl. The mother, alerted by their melody, picked out the pebbles, while she entertained her daughter with her tales: His [...]

click on drawings       They sat on a wall of dusty stone, their faces touched with pink by the rays of the rising sun. The mother pulled a dumpling out of her basket and handed it over to the [...]

   The second woman talked to her daughter to prepare her for life:My mother did not know tenderness. I would have liked a mother like the others, who cared for me, who caressed me. She said: [...]