Vulgar words in Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. (Page 1)
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), in the course of a review of Richardson's _Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa, &c._: "To avert the evil eye from the gardens, the people (of Mourzak) put up the head of an ass, or some portion of the bones of that animal.
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The same superstition prevails in all the oases that stud the north of Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, but the people are unwilling to explain what especial virtue there exists in an ass's skull."
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It appears (see the quotations in Facciolati) that this sage and laughter-moving remark of Crassus was made on seeing an ass eating a thistle; whereon he exclaimed, "Similes habent labra lactucas."