[SunkenCiv]

The ancient incantation had illustrations of animals such as scorpions on the front and back (shown here). Credit: Photo by Roberto Ceccacci/Courtesy of the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition to Zincirli

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gouzer the Gouzerian? Slors?
Who you gonna call, “Archeological Ghostbusters”?

[a fool in paradise]

Textbook definition of a Devourer

[a fool in paradise]

>>The ancient incantation had

Beware when reading ancient incantations...

[Hot Tabasco]

The blood of the devourer was used to treat someone who appears to have been suffering from the "fire" of the devourer,

That's where the phrase "the hair of the dog that bit you" came from.....

Or it could be referring to antacids......I ended up with a bit of that fire last night and only zantac could help.

[RandallFlagg]

It’s Aramaic?

King Arthur: [about the inscription on the rock] What does it say, Brother Maynard?
Brother Maynard: It reads, “Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathia. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh... “
King Arthur: What?
Brother Maynard: “The Castle of Aaaauuuggghhhh”
Sir Bedevere: What is that?
Brother Maynard: He must have died while carving it.
King Arthur: Oh come on!

[csvset]

I see a scorpion , a bull, a bird, a star and a sea turtle.

[Red Badger]

So it was a ‘prescription’ for Hair of the Dog?................

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“describes the seizure of a threatening creature [called] the ‘devourer,’”

Strange. Getting bad vibs from reading too many H.P. Lovecraft stories.