שאלה | Question: What was the legend about the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

Question: What was the legend about the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

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		A) The Brotherhood members needed hashish in order to gain special powers.
		B) The members were given a potion by the old man who led them (later linked to hashish), which made them believe they were in Paradise. After the “high” wore off, they realized they were not in Paradise, and the old man instructed them that to return to Paradise they had to kill and be captured.
		C) The Brotherhood members needed hashish in order to receive more “truth,” so they would not fear death (because they were always “high”).
		D) The Brotherhood members needed drugs in order to relax and enjoy life.

Explanation: The lectures treat this as a polemical/orientalist legend: an intoxicating “potion” (later associated with hashish) is used to create a Paradise illusion and motivate obedience and killing, rather than a reliable historical account. (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”; also Ram, Hashishophobia.)