TAKING THE OATH.
SOME QUAINT CUSTOMS. Foreigners giving evidence in New Zealand Courts are permitted to take the oath in accordance with the customs of their own country. To those accustomed to making such a declaration while holding their right hand on the Bible, many of the customs of those from other lands appear decidedly quaint.
The Mahornmedan makes his vow to tell the truth on the Koran, the Jew is sworn on tho Five Books of the Pentateuch, the Buddhist swears by the Vedas, vhile the Chinese takes his oath by blowing out a lighted match, breaking a saucer or by the decapitation of a rooster. Several Chinese appeared as witnesses ■in the Magistrate's Court in Wellington last week in a theft case. Before giving their evidence each of them blew out a lighted match held by the interpreter, •iter having heard him say, "as I blow out the light so may my soul for ever tie nut in darkness if I don't tell the JV'hole truth, and nothing but the truth."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19928, 23 April 1928, Page 13
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