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Thuggee religious devotion to Kali involves human strangulation. [Indian Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1080] See : Murder |
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Afghani also founded a lodge of his Arab Masonic society in Cairo, which soon became the headquarters of what Egyptian officials called a group of "young Thugs" (a term which, at the time, alluded specifically to another oath-bound fraternity of murderers, India's notorious Thugee cult). Although state line clubs such as the White Iris and the Shamrock were famously hospitable to mobsters, their hospitality toward innocent travelers was a snare like that used with such murderous success by India's diabolical Thugee cult. |
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