At dawn, once the raiders had made an opening in the stockade and were ready to carry out the attack, the magician would chew some bespelled pieces of ginger and lemon, step into the hamlet and spray the mixture from his mouth.

His miscomputation of the amount of tax he owed increased his tax bill.

“Did they just bow chicka bow wow at my wedding reception?

As noted by Eichengreen (199b:158-9), Korea had liberalized its capital account entirely backwards, maintaining strict controls on inflows of foreign direct investment, limiting opportunities for foreigners to purchase bonds and equities issued by Korean corporations, restricting the ability of Korean chaebols to borrow on international capital markets, and leaving Korean banks free to borrow abroad and onloan to the chaebols.