Psilles (people)

Psils
Psils
Modern self-name
Abundance and area
	Total: 0
	North Africa
Extinct	Antiquity
Included in	Libyans

Psilles ( Greek Ψύλλοι ) - an ancient people in North Africa.

Inhabited the area adjacent to the Great Sirte Bay ^[1]

The name was received after the mythological king Psillus .

They were known as snake charmers, whose poison they could suck out harmlessly for themselves. According to Dion Cassius , Octavian with the help of psilles tried to revive Cleopatra , who died from a snakebite ^[2] .

According to legend, the psils checked with the bites of snakes and their children, if the child was dying, then it was believed that the woman sinned with a foreigner.

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History

According to Herodotus ^[3] in his time, psilles had completely disappeared in the sands of the desert ^[4] , their lands were inhabited by nammones . But this nation was subsequently mentioned by other writers ( Strabo 13, 588, 17, 838).

Literature

"Inanimate beast." Published: 1916. Source: Teffi N. A. Collected works in five volumes. T. 2. - M .: Book club "Bookstore", 2011.

Notes

↑ Psilles is an Ethiopian tribe, invulnerable to poisonous snakes and poisonous to the snakes themselves, whose representatives give newborn children to poisonous snakes in order to verify the loyalty of their wives
↑ The riddle of the death of Cleopatra VII in the ancient literary tradition
↑ HERODOT'S HISTORY Book Four
↑ Herodotus “This tribe died in this way: the south wind blew with such force that the reservoirs [of them] dried up and the whole country lying inside [Sirte] became completely waterless. Then the psilles unanimously decided to go war against the south wind (I only report what the Libyans convey). And when they ended up in a sandy desert, a south wind rose and covered them with sand ”

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Libyans

[1] Psilles is an Ethiopian tribe, invulnerable to poisonous snakes and poisonous to the snakes themselves, whose representatives give newborn children to poisonous snakes in order to verify the loyalty of their wives

[2] The riddle of the death of Cleopatra VII in the ancient literary tradition

[3] HERODOT'S HISTORY Book Four

[4] Herodotus “This tribe died in this way: the south wind blew with such force that the reservoirs [of them] dried up and the whole country lying inside [Sirte] became completely waterless. Then the psilles unanimously decided to go war against the south wind (I only report what the Libyans convey). And when they ended up in a sandy desert, a south wind rose and covered them with sand ”