Clove of garlic
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| Name | clove of garlic |
| Base price | 7 zm |
| Nutrition | 40 |
| Turns to eat | 1 |
| Weight | 1 |
| Conduct | {{{conduct}}} |
Priests (and in SLASH'EM, Undead Slayers) start with cloves of garlic in their inventory.
Garlic is acceptable food for pets; you can use it to tame horses and feed herbivores[1].
Undead and garlic
All Undead dislike garlic, not only V vampires . Garlic has the following effects:
If you polymorph into an undead monster, then eating garlic will make you "feel incredibly sick" and has a chance to make you vomit[2].
If you wield a clove of garlic, and use it to attack undead, it will cause them to flee for a moment[3]. The same should happen if you throw garlic at them, but it must hit.
No undead except ghosts and shades will enter a square with a clove of garlic on it[4].
Undead pets will not eat garlic[5]. Currently there are no herbivorous or omnivorous undead who might have eaten garlic in any case.
Mythology
According to Central European folklore, garlic can ward off vampires, werewolves and demons[1].
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