The Legend of Onion:
Is one of the legends of ancient Memphis, which tells that one of the kings of the Pharaohs had a single child, was loved by the people, and the little prince was suffering a mysterious illness, the inability of doctors and priests and sorcery treatment, and sat the little prince of the movement, and required several years of bed, The celebration of the holidays is the king's share in his sorrows.
The children of the city were offering offerings to the god at the temples on various occasions to heal their prince. The king summoned the chief priest to the temple of Amun. The prince's illness was attributed to the presence of evil spirits that controlled him and paralyzed him by magic.
The priest ordered to put a ripe fruit from the fruits of the onion under the head of the prince in his bedtime at sunset after reading some of the curses, then break it at sunrise in the dawn and put it over his nose to sniff her juice.
They were also asked to hang packages of fresh onion sticks on top of the bed, on the door of the room and at the gates of the palace to expel evil spirits.
The legend explains how the miracle happened and the child left his bed and went out to play in the garden. He recovered from his illness, which is sickened by medicine. The King held weddings in the palace for the children of the whole city. The people participated in the palace in his joys. On the doors of their role to believe that he expelled evil spirits and then found another legend, namely:
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It is an Egyptian mythology, where farmers claim to be a very beautiful and strange woman. They appear on the dark nights in the fields calling for the name of the person, who is enchanted and follows the call to reach her, and then find him dead in the morning. It is also said that these women come out of the Nile take the children from the houses and drown them, and said: Onions
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