An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
If Oasis tickets were sold for 20 pounds-roughly the amount that they cost three decades ago-many would be snapped up by people looking for a cheap night out, rather than genuine devotees.
Amazon is no devotee of literature. It sees books as a " gateway" commodity it can use to attract customers. It has squeezed publishers and muscled out other booksellers by discounting books and selling some below cost.
The image of the Buddha plays a role of recalling in the mind of the devotee, the historical teacher, the Buddha, and his experience of awakening, and also the key events in his life.
Those who continue are either the herding aristocracy, who are so rich in animals that they can weather the storms for the moment, or else they are true devotees: possibly addicts, possibly mad.
When the wagon bearing the poet's body reached Pskov province, where he was to be interred, devotees tried to unharness the horses and pull it themselves.
India's Kumbh Mela lasts for weeks and attracts millions of Hindu devotees who descend on the banks of the river Ganges in Haridwar to bath in its holy waters.