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the Bahit stone is if the gallinuje bird, which is a small
black bird with a red ring and red eyes, steps on the stone
and then anyone can look at the stone with no harm. The
Fawina is a Habashi sandalwood when it breaks it breaks
in the shape of a cross even if you continue breaking the
broken pieces it will still be in the shape of a cross and that
is one of natures wonders and if it is used on the patients
sick with epilepsy it would cure them from it but it will
make them addicted to it as well.
One of the other ways to keep the snakes away is the
smell of the horns of the camels, just as ants run away of
the smell of cumin and geckos run away from the smell of
saffron and would not come near the place and the flea
runs away of the blossoms if they are spread on the
ground and would also run away by using the salt marsh
if it was well spread in the houses and the bed bug stays
away if you cense with ebony wood- Another one of the
wonders is that the moss plant does not bum just like the
jujube wood does not bum. The eagles spread buttonwood
leaves in the nest because that will keep the bats out of the
nest and away from its eggs. The Tiraz stone is a stone that
does not break or divide neither big pieces nor small pieces
of it There is also a stone in the Nile in Egypt, it is so
heavy yet it floats and never sinks and the Jimset stone if it
was divided into pieces and put in glasses and imbibed
with alcohol, it prevents from getting intoxicated. The
Tabary stone does the opposite effect if it was divided and
added to drinks it causes quick intoxication and it makes
anyone lose their mind and to start to have horrific
thoughts. The loadstone has the power of pulling the metal
but if it was rubbed with garlic it would not work and if it
was soaked in a bull blood it gets the power back and pulls
the metal again. If anv human looked at the snakes in the
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