• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    drugs in Cinderella’s time

    the origin of the story is Strabo’s Geographia c. 7BCE–24ACE, in what is modern day Giza, Egypt.

    So likely Cassia, Hemp, Myrrh, Frankincense, Cinnamon, Saffron, Agarwood and Alcohol.

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      reading the summary, it doesn’t seem like the king even saw that slave girl, only her shoe delivered by an eagle

      so prolly not those