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Chris: So this is the buzzing the Smitty the Demon was freaked out about? Anybody know why he would be freaked out by this? Why he would only be allowed to read every other word? I must admit, I only skimmed it...

Noah: While there is certainly buzzing in this text, I don't think it is *THE* Buzzing, the dread Al Aziz. To wit: Smitty mentioned that the following passage appears somewhere within the text:

"octopuses...return...that...when...is...distracted".

and our text does not contain that passage or, indeed, mention octopuses anywhere. The Al Aziz may be one of the texts that Philip mu mu mu mu mu'ed out.  More likely, he had the demon memorize every other word and then destroyed the original.

What this text does have, though, is a lot of words I don't recognize. Arben got a few of them, but not nearly enough, I think, for us to piece too much of this out.  It seems to me that Al-Wathiq might be some kind of bardic lich.  Weird, right?

phulakterion = phylactery?

Also notable - 

     the will of the Musselman come to Europe

Karabasmos = Qabar Hadra?

What the hell is that?