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in dominating people and in works of hate and this plant
is sort of like a sister plant to the laurel tree. It is also the
same plant that the Persians call Fangikisht and the Kurds
eat its bread.
The Nabaraean people had a tradition that they
followed and believed in doing on the night of the first of
April and that is no man, woman or child sleep that night
unless they had a piece of bread, four dates, seven raisins
and a silk wrap that has salt in it, under their pillows
because they believed that the old woman that is called the
servant of Venus comes on that night and goes around and
checks everyone's belly and looks under their pillows and
the ones that she finds with empty bellies and no piece of
bread, raison or dates under his pillow, she would tighten
his income for the whole year and also calls Venus to
dominate him and she would make that person sick till
next year. All the people of Babel followed this tradition
and never railed to do it and that is one of their wonders.
The watermelon also had its own special features
because both the Moon and Mars share this plant so the
magicians claim that if you plant a seed of the watermelon
in a human skull and covered it with dirt then you bury
the skull in the ground and water it all the time the seed
will grow to be a watermelon but whoever eats from this
watermelon their level of intelligence and the quality of
their knowledge will increase. The opposite of that effect
happens if you put the seed in a donkey skull, bur
water it the same way vou normally water the watermelon
plant and the person that eats from it becomes
simplerrunded, stupid and would forget everything- The
magicians use it all the time in their magic and they use
every part of the plant like branches, leaves, seeds and
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