"The number of murders committed during Lent is greater, I am told, than
at any other time of the year. A man under the influence of a bean
dietary {for this is the principal food of the Greeks during their
fasts} will be in an apt humour for enriching the shrine of his Saint,
and passing a knife through his next-door neighbor."

                              A.W.Kinglake  'Eothen'
quoted in:
     The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Penguin Books, p.239

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