A few ways to respond if one is being hunted by a snake
(jump and ditch, cross a river, sleep in a bed set on for barrels set outside
[so it can’t attack from the ceiling], tie four cats to the legs of the bed and
put plants fronds under the bed so the cats can hear when the snake is approaching
and eat it. Bet you never thought of that!)
Also, how to extract a snake which has entered a woman’s
uterus (did such things happen?). You don’t want to know.
The page also contains extensive and increasingly bizarre
treatments for a woman who is a zabba – one having a non-menstrual
discharge (i.e. gonorrhea) to cure and keep her from being barren. Also cures
for jaundice but which will make a man impotent.
On the positive side, though, there is a recipe for Egyptian beer: one
part barley (or wheat – there is some disagreement), one part safflower, and
one part salt. When drunk after Passover until Shavuot it is a laxative for the
constipated and a binding agent for those with diarrhea.
You’re welcome.
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