Fact is I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, or maybe I just wanted to see how a compacted hairball could ever be considered pretty.
Anyway, I did an internet search, hoping for photos and came across a site devoted ENTIRELY to Bezoars and, get this, their “magickal” properties.
Among other things the site claims they get their stones from animals and trees, do trees have digestive processes? Perhaps their confusing amber (petrified sap) with a bezoar?
At any rate, among many comical properties they ascribe to these tones, are the following:
Additionally the site claims that they found these stones in Indonesia, but also, that some psycics or shamans or something had to travel to the ‘etheric plane’ to retrieve them.
Right.
Anyway, I thought the Teeming Masses might get a kick out of this, I sure did.
And I wonder what Cecil would think of it.
A Jinn, (pardon spelling). Is a aboriginal virgin. it can be spelt many ways, but is is the sound of the word that will get you speared. Oh I know my speeling sucks, but colour has been spelt with a 'u' since the 17th century.
Oddly, the main page of the Bezoar site starts off with factually correct information, wholly at odds with the mysticism of the interior page. It’s actually one of the best sources of info I’ve seen. I get the feeling that the page is pandering to the idiots who want to buy in, literally and figuratively, when it goes off the rails into nonsense.
I doubt it very much. Jinn is the plural of a word variously transliterated as jinni, djinni, djinny, or jinnee. It refers to a type of Arabic spirit or demon often referred to in the Arabian Nights works. Jinni is pronounced the same as genie and is obviously the same word differently transliterated. So genies, plural, and jinn, plural, are the same things.