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Originally Posted by Bruno
The wood the sacred cedar - as an aromatic, distilled as perfume, burned as incense, or as a direct weapon (even flat out beating them with it; A stake would be fine too of course). Cedar wood repels insects and resists rot, making it a symbol of purity, and naturally gets used to repel infesting spirits in the same way.
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Sounds good. Cedar wood it is.
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Originally Posted by Bruno
Asafoetida/asafedity - again a pungent aromatic but in this case more offensive in smell but good in taste (like garlic). It also has similar antiseptic properties to garlic, and is used to repel evil spirits.
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Nice.
Do you happen to know where the idea of garlic repelling evil spirits comes from?
Would it be regarded as a silly foreign supersitution in a Mesopotamian-inspired culture or is garlic repelling evil an ancient enough idea for it to be plausible for it to have some currency somewhere in the Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia or Egypt?