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在古代印度有一群崇拜女神Kalid的罪犯。他们经常伪装成普通的旅客或朝拜者，在旅途中骗得其他旅客的信任后，趁其不注意谋害他人性命。他们的杀人手法很特别，主要是使用长手帕、毛巾或绳索将受害人勒死，几乎从不见血。他们杀人的目的主要是出于宗教原因而不是谋财害命。杀人后，他们使用一种特殊的鹤嘴锄挖掘坟墓掩埋尸体。受害人的财物中的三分之一将被奉献给女神Kalid。英国统治印度期间，英国军队围剿了这一群罪犯，发现丧命于他们之手的尸体达到上千具。这些罪犯在印度语中被称为thag，意思是“狡猾的、欺骗的”。英语单词thug就来源于此，用来表示残忍的杀人犯。
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小知识
A thug is a bad guy or a bully, especially a violent one. A thug might break into someone's house, push its owners around, and steal their TV.
It's hard to reason with thugs, since they'd rather intimidate and physically hurt people than talk. A playground bully is one kind of thug, and an armed robber is an even more dangerous one. The noun thug may have its oldest roots in the Sanskrit word sthaga-s, “cunning or fraudulent,” and it's definitely related to the Marathi and Hindi thag, “cheat or swindler.” The earliest use of thug, from 1810, was “member of a murdering gang of robbers in India.”