[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger

[richardwillytexwilliams]

curtisdeltablues:
> Thug hash smokers from Northern India...
>
 The 'Thugs' were worshippers of Kali, from
South India.

> (the original assassins)...
>
There is no historical evidence that the
Muslim 'assassins' smoked hash.

Sources:

'The Strangled Traveler'
Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
By Martine van Woerkens
University Of Chicago Press, 2002

'The Templars and the Assasins' 
Militia of Heaven
by James Wasserman 
Inner Traditions, 2001