{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "soot-milk",
 "type": "ink",
 "names": {
  "name": "Soot and milk",
  "said": "Reported for deq: soot with breast milk"
 },
 "region": [
  "west-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "blue-black"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Soot mixed with breast milk, reported as the Kurdish preparation.",
  "story": "*Inference —* the additive in every one of these recipes is something sticky and mildly antiseptic that the household already has: milk, honey, bile, fat, oil. The carbon does the marking; the liquid decides how it handles."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "deq",
   "as": "Where it goes.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "soot-honey",
   "as": "The Bosnian equivalent.",
   "rel": "ink"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-deq-tattoo"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}