[Evelyn sits up straighter. She wouldn't be offended by the alcohol abuse - Lord knows she's been desensitized to it by her brother - but it's nice of him to think otherwise. Respectable young women are becoming quite modern, after all. It is the 1920s.]
It was a curse used to punish the worst blasphemers. Should any victims rise from the dead, they would bring with them all the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
[Now for the fun part!]
The priests would cut out the tongue of the accused, who would then be embalmed alive, wrapped in linen, and placed in a stone sarcophagus with hundreds of flesh-eating scarab beetles. There is, however, very little record of this ever being done to anyone.
Hypothetically speaking, if this did happen, then the Medjai would have every reason to...protect...the remains.
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Date: 2011-07-23 06:08 pm (UTC)[Evelyn sits up straighter. She wouldn't be offended by the alcohol abuse - Lord knows she's been desensitized to it by her brother - but it's nice of him to think otherwise. Respectable young women are becoming quite modern, after all. It is the 1920s.]
It was a curse used to punish the worst blasphemers. Should any victims rise from the dead, they would bring with them all the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
[Now for the fun part!]
The priests would cut out the tongue of the accused, who would then be embalmed alive, wrapped in linen, and placed in a stone sarcophagus with hundreds of flesh-eating scarab beetles. There is, however, very little record of this ever being done to anyone.
Hypothetically speaking, if this did happen, then the Medjai would have every reason to...protect...the remains.
[Oh.]