Show origin of assassin Atsas aln thet tha drug hashish or indian hemp for or which egyptians will pay such lucli ft high price has given us our word assassin these desperadoes formed originally a secret society in per ela relates london chronicle in tho the eleventh century members ot of which were under tinder a vow of blind obedience ato their chief they were called upon to perpetrate me most atrocious deeds and before these ruf ruffians flans were sent out to per forin their grew bome borne taska tas they were given hashish by which they were thrown into a kind of ecstasy or intoxication hence they aliey were called Illa shishin meaning hemp enters the word became part of western languages but was changed into assassins |