that he would be a Jew from the Israelite Tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10), and that he would be a descendant of King David (2 Samuel 7:12-16, Isaiah 7:13-14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Micah 5:1-4, Jeremiah 23:5-6).
Thuggee membership was for life, all the way up to the elderly Thugs who still did what they could for the group as cooks or spies—yet the wives and daughters of these men might never know the truth about the male members of their family. Their extreme secrecy combined with their...