Dave Jacoby on Nostr: TIL: We get "assassin" from Italian, who got the word from Arabic, "Hashashin". Same ...
TIL:
We get "assassin" from Italian, who got the word from Arabic, "Hashashin". Same root as "hashish", and the assumption, as long as I've known, is that the followers were drugged to brainwash them into fealty toward the cause.
But, in fact, the root is "to reap", so "Hashashin" would be "the Reapers". (How many military units call themselves "Grim Reapers"?) So, it's the linguistic version of the Death Head and always has been.
We get "assassin" from Italian, who got the word from Arabic, "Hashashin". Same root as "hashish", and the assumption, as long as I've known, is that the followers were drugged to brainwash them into fealty toward the cause.
But, in fact, the root is "to reap", so "Hashashin" would be "the Reapers". (How many military units call themselves "Grim Reapers"?) So, it's the linguistic version of the Death Head and always has been.