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[24] Poison's lethal effect could be combined with its allegedly magical powers; an illustration would be the Chinese gu poison. Poison was also used in gunpowder warfare. One example is, the 14th-century Chinese textual content in the Huolongjing created by Jiao Yu outlined the use of a poisonous gunpowder mixture to fill cast iron grenade bombs.[