Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 79 of 96
Chapter 84. [Manufacturing and distributing narcotics]
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. Then I saw the soul of a woman (2) whose breasts they cut off; and her belly was torn, and the entrails given to the dogs. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this woman?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman, by whom, in the world, poison and oil [liquor? infusion?] of opium were made and kept, (6) and given by her to people to eat.