Nucta
, or miraculous drop which falls in Egypt on St. John’s day (June), is supposed to have the effect of stopping the plague. Thomas Moore refers to it in his Paradise and the Peri.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.