suggests that "old traditions about to die out easily assume a holy character". Thus Schwally points to the circumstance that the Muslim pilgrim, as soon as he puts his foot on Ḥaram, the holy soil, takes off all the clothes he is wearing, and dons the iḥram. See also Repentance (Christianity) Cilice Penance Mortification of the flesh Flagellant Hessian fabric References Much of this article is taken from the article Sackcloth by Joseph Jacobs and Wilhelm Nowack in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, now in the public domain in the United States as a work published before 1923. Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode (The Life After Death), pp. 11 et seq., Giessen, 1892 Textiles