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Updated: July 2, 2025
Too late perhaps for medicine to help, and Amanita, the Deathcup, the child of Diablo, has claimed another victim. How shall we know the deadly Amanita among its kindly cousins, the good mushrooms?
This, the danger of the Deathcup, is the Seventh Secret of the Woods. Poison Ivy or the Three-Fingered Demon of the Woods You have been hearing about good fairies and good old Mother Carey and Medicine in the Sky.
Now I am going to warn you against the three-fingered Demon, the wicked snakevine that basks on stone walls and climbs up the tree trunk, and does more harm than all the other plants, vines, trees, and bushes put together; for it is not like the Deathcup, easy to see and easy to let alone. This is the Poison Ivy.
He saw it furnish food to mice and deer, so he fashioned the Deathcup Amanita to be like it; and scattered it wherever good mushrooms grew, a trap for the unwary. Tall and shapely is the Deathcup; beautiful to look upon and smelling like a mushroom. But beware of it, a very little is enough, a morsel of the cup; the next night or maybe a day later the poison pangs set in.
He put the Snapping Turtle in the beautiful lakes to destroy its harmless creatures and the Yellow-eyed Whizz he sent, and the Witherbloom with its breath of flame. And last he made the Deathcup Toadstool, and sowed it in the woods. He saw the Squirrels eating and storing up the sweet red russula.
Yes, and they all do it to-day just the same, big and little, which is only one of the many proofs that they are descended from the same wild-wood great-grandfather, and still remember his habits. The Deathcup of Diablo The world went very well in those bright days of the long ago, when the wedding of El Sol and Maka Ina set all living things rejoicing.
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