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I don't know if it is 'social distance' insanity or just plain insanity.It's anti-social duncestancing . . .
Often seen smoking marijuana or chillum, the images of these babas have become quite an attraction for people. But do not mistake their marijuana for the type easily found. It is said that these naga sadhus source their marijuana from the hilly regions and is very potent. The smoke helps them keep their bodies warm as does the ash that they smear over themselves
During the Middle Ages, victims of the bubonic plague were used for biological attacks, often by flinging fomites such as infected corpses and excrement over castle walls using catapults. Bodies would be tied along with cannonballs and shot towards the city area. In 1346, during the siege of Caffa (now Feodossia, Crimea) the attacking Tartar Forces (subjugated by the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan more than a century ago), used the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague, as weapons. An outbreak of plague followed and the defending forces retreated, followed by the conquest of the city by the Mongols. It has been speculated that this operation may have been responsible for the advent of the Black Death in Europe. At the time, the attackers thought that the stench was enough to kill them, though it was the disease that was deadly
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