Sentence:  Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to <WSD>lead</WSD> , as a dealer in Khartoum assured me , I am not competent to say . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey