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the local people are waiting for the holy man Šałitay to die in order to “seize his body” but he tricks them by drowning himself in a river (pseudo-Faustus of Byzantium, History of Armenia V.26; GARSOÏAN 1989, p. 206);
one wife of Armenian king Aršak II (IV CE) kills another one by the poisoned bread of Eucharist (pseudo-Faustus of Byzantium, History of Armenia IV.15; GARSOÏAN 1989, p. 145);
executioner, prostitute and pimp are necessary in a well-ordered city (Augustine, De Ordine 2.4.12 [CCSL 29,114]);
conversion to Christianity as the necessary condition for treatment of constipation (Acts of Mar Mari 27; ed. Harrak 2005, pp. 60-61);
"Rav Yehudah said in the name of Samuel: One hits a [pregnant] woman going to her execution on her uterus in order that the death of the fetus precedes the execution of its mother. This is done in order to avoid disgrace to her [i.e. so that sche does not give birth in public during her execution]". b.Arakhin 7a |
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