Kothian culture and religion had suffered from a subtle admix ture of Shemite and Stygian strains. - Robert E. Howard

The King is only a slave like yourself, locked with heavier chains.

Civilized men laugh, said Conan. "But not one can tell me how Zogar Sag can call pythons and tigers and leopards out of the wilderness and make them do his bidding. They would say it is a lie, if they dared. That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.