Hindu Medicine c5.s2.15

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sake; they are a means by which to impart and clarify an attitude of life.⁷ From India, where it originated, this type of psychagogic narrative was brought to other countries, as Zimmer added later on. It has become world-famous through the stories of *The Thousand and One Nights*, told as a charm that was to cure a blood-thirsty tyrant’s soul of the passions which haunted it.⁸