Twelve miles from Sebaste to Jerusalem, and between the hills of that country, is Jacob's Well, which, four times in the year, changes colours, sometimes red, sometimes green, sometimes turbid, sometimes thick. And the folk of that country are called Samaritans, and though they had the Apostles' creed, in belief they are not the same as the Christians, and they are not the same as the Saracens. And red linen cloths are always
p.59round their heads, while white cloths are round the heads of the Saracens, and blue cloths round the heads of the Christians who are there, and red (yellow) cloths round the heads of the Jews. So that each set of them may be known from the other.