Word: asafetida
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...tied an asafetida bag around my bitch's neck, would it keep male dogs away...
...baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done its work-or as Diogène's half...
...believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...
Iowa's dapper, young (47), first-term Governor makes a political asset of his fascinating name: Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. Against the better judgment of his advisers, Governor Hickenlooper campaigned in 1938 by telling a joke on himself. A drugstore clerk refused to charge 10? worth of asafetida to the Hickenlooper account. "Take it for nothing," said the clerk, "I wouldn't write both asafetida and Hickenlooper for a dime...
...Asafetida suspended in a little sack from the neck to prevent acute infectious diseases like measles, diphtheria, whooping cough...