The bishop told him it would be forty days, and gave him forty kernels of "hummus," or peas, telling him to put them into his pocket and throw one out every day, and when they were all gone, to proclaim the feast!
"The Women of the Arabs"
Henry Harris Jessup
So she went to her earthen jar and took a big double handful of hummus and put them into the priest's pocket, and said no more.
"The Women of the Arabs"
Henry Harris Jessup