Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 582

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582. As for their gait, I have watched them helping themselves along with their hands, and jumping [567], because it was also granted me to see how they walk. Every third step, they turn around, performing a full circle with face and body, and then sit. They do this so that they will not be seen except for the face, for they very much like their faces to be seen, but they hide the other parts by so sitting, in their own fashion, whereby also their foreparts are concealed, which they do not like to be seen either.


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