Moriscos could not practice circumcision openly and mourned the loss

Evidence

Muslims also have the custom that at forty days a child’s hair is cut, and they give away the weight in silver as alms. Now, for our sins, we do not go so far as to have circumcision, may His goodness grant we achieve it before forty years are out.” — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 878

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• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the reader’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ article in that it shows how cultural practices get suppressed and mourned under persecution, with the forty-day hair-cutting ritual surviving while circumcision could not.