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Chapter XXX.—Self-Slaughter of Sheep.
By those who cause sheep to cut off their own
heads, the following plan is adopted. Secretly smearing the
throat (of the animal) with a cauterizing drug, he places a sword near,
and leaves it there.242
The sheep, desirous of scratching
himself, rushes against the blade, and in the act of rubbing is
slaughtered, while the head is almost severed from the trunk.
There is, however, a compound of the drug, bryony and salt and squills,
made up in equal parts. In order that the person bringing the
drug may escape notice, he carries a box with two compartments
constructed of horn, the visible one of which contains frankincense,
but the secret one (the aforesaid) drug. He, however, likewise
insinuates into the ears of the sheep about to meet death quicksilver;
but this is a poisonous drug.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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