This disease could be eradicated by branding oneself with St. Hubert’s Key, removing the frenulum of the tongue, or administering a “madstone” hairball harvested from an albino deer. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this disease that can be cured through moral growth upon visiting Hadkai’s Gujarati temples. Several vase scenes depicting Actaeon’s death also depict a goddess of this disease, a daughter of Nyx who reluctantly curses Heracles at Iris’ instigation.
ANSWER: rabies [prompt on madness] (The goddess is Lyssa; the lingual frenulum clue refers to dog removal, not human.)
[10m] Antaeus believed that a potion made using the skulls of people who underwent this action could cure rabies. Skull moss grew from the “vital spirits” of this action’s victims, whose fat could be used to make a Hand of Glory.
ANSWER: hanged men [prompt on dead people; prompt on criminals or executed people or similar by asking “what manner of death?”] (Paracelsians believed in the vital spirits.)
[10e] In this Euripides play, a god unleashes Lyssa, the spirit of rabies and madness, on Cadmus’ daughters to kill Pentheus.
ANSWER: The Bacchae [or The Bacchantes; or Bakkhai]
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