Lesson #4

Chapter 4

Ja'mam Biba- A muggle woman who wrote the Letter of Severance, which is about a terrible pain she experienced when several of her teeth were pulled from her mouth and her eyes were gouged out of her head by a man who never touched her. This letter, in addition to being an invaluable resource for magihistorians and anthropologists, is also believed to have led to the creation of the Hammurabi Code, or the code of law for ancient Mesopotamia. However, the letter paints a darker picture as well. -Vipera Evanesca aka the snake vanishing charm is compared to the Phoenician spell "rir-rir or wal lat ick nur geg" Akim Malaam- A man who found the remnants of a very weak immortality potion Mesopotamia - Lies between two rivers named Tigris and Euphrates -The people who lived in the Indus River Valley had an "unusually concentrated and well-attuned magic" - Lahsun, a chieftain of the B'ha-Rahi, was also known by the tile "The divine one" The B'ha-Rahi Brotherhood -the name of the order of magical priests who protected the Indus River Valley people from the Lahoo Vampires?