Millard County Chronicle | 1918-01-31 | Page 7 | Origin of "Assassin."

Origin of Assassin The drug hashish or Indian hemp for which B Egyptians will pay such a n high price has given us our word assassin These desperadoes form formed ed originally a secret society In Persia Per Per- sia sin relates Lon London on Chronicle In Iii the eleventh century members of which were un under er a vow YOW of blind hUml obedience to their theil chief They were called upon I to perpetrate the most atrocious deeds and ond before these ruffians were sent out to perform their tasks the they were given hashish b by which they were into a kind of ecstasy ecstasy ec ec- ec stasy or intoxication Hence the they were called H meaning h hemp hemp- mp eaters caters The Tile word became part o o. Western lan languages but was changed S S Into assassins