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The Folklore of Prohibition

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The History of Pajin

Spirits don't exist naturally like whiskey vodka pajin they had to be discovered by humans through distillation. People in Ireland believed that it was the fairies so if a pajin maker who would have been a poor person in a hut had a family and one of the babies died they thought that it was a changeling it was a fairy baby. The first bit of pajin that came out of the still that was always methylated spirits that was the dangerous stuff that was stuffed a kakilya. Pajin makers also used to try and trick the fairies with dresses for their children which we now have names for back then people called them 'fairy

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