{"id":54088,"date":"2019-09-10T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/scythicon-scary-poison-of-scythians\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T08:21:38","slug":"scythicon-scary-poison-of-scythians","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/scythicon-scary-poison-of-scythians\/","title":{"rendered":"Scythicon &#8211; scary poison of Scythians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scythicon<\/em> was a poison that the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/geografia\/krainy-sasiednie-rzymu\/scytia\/\">Scythians<\/a> used and covered their arrowheads. This poison had a terrible fame in ancient times.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was a mixture of rotten bodies of small snakes and their venom, human blood and excrement buried in the ground until complete decomposition<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"Claudius Aelianus, De Natura Animalium, 9.15\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup>. A person hit by a poison arrow had to face a heavy death even within an hour. First, in the place where the arrowhead hit, tissue necrosis appeared, swollen arms and legs; vomiting, convulsions, severe pain and finally death. Even if the body was strong enough to survive the first shock, after 1-2 days gangrene was caused by bacteria from faeces and rot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/owidiusz\/\">Ovid<\/a> claimed that this substance, when applied to the arrowhead, &#8220;which promises a double death&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40071,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-54088","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/54088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/54088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=54088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}