[skepsel]

Well, there’s this from Herodotus about the Scythians and hemp, besides making cloth from it, there was this odd steam bath:

“75. The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and creep under the felt coverings, and then they throw the seed upon the stones which have been heated red-hot: and it burns like incense and produces a vapor so think that no vapor-bath in Hellas would surpass it: and the Scythians being delighted with the vapor-bath howl like wolves.”

Hmmmmn...

[SunkenCiv]

Good call!

[SunkenCiv]

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