Supposedly it is an Arab, possibly Turkish legend or tradition, that when death approaches, it takes the form of a Black Camel, the fact that it kneels is indicative of the fact that it is about to take on its burden or rider, carrying the soul to wherever.
http://theoldproverbialrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/death-is-a-black-camel-which-kneels-at-every-mans-gate-turkish-the-camel-kneels-to-receive-its-burden-here-death-is-represented-as-a-camel-that-is-sure-at-some-time-to-stop-before-every-mans/ There was also a Charley Chan novel called The Black Camel "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate. Tonight black camel has knelt here", Chan tells the suspects." ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Not All TM'ers Welcome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > ...until the Black Camel kneels outside their tent? OK, I have to ask. That's a wonderfully odd metaphor, one that I neither heard during my years in Morocco, nor can find on Google. Where's it from?
