{"title":"Exod. 3:14","authors":"W. Irwin","doi":"10.1086/370545","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Very interesting in connection with Dr. Godbey's essay on the unicorn and detection of poison by means of its horn is what KaBgari reports in his Diwan Lu'dt al-Turk, III, 164, 9-12. K~Sgari knew wares and ideas current among the Turks in the eleventh century A.D. as did few others. Defining the Turkish word Catuq, he says: \"The horn of a deep-sea fish, which is imported from China. Some say, it is the root of a tree, from which knife-handles are made. By it poison is tested, when it is in food. The broth or whatever it may be is stirred with it in a wooden bowl, and the food boils without fire; or this horn is placed on a bowl, and it sweats without steam.\"","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1939-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370545","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Very interesting in connection with Dr. Godbey's essay on the unicorn and detection of poison by means of its horn is what KaBgari reports in his Diwan Lu'dt al-Turk, III, 164, 9-12. K~Sgari knew wares and ideas current among the Turks in the eleventh century A.D. as did few others. Defining the Turkish word Catuq, he says: "The horn of a deep-sea fish, which is imported from China. Some say, it is the root of a tree, from which knife-handles are made. By it poison is tested, when it is in food. The broth or whatever it may be is stirred with it in a wooden bowl, and the food boils without fire; or this horn is placed on a bowl, and it sweats without steam."