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Updated: May 20, 2025
I do not say of the plant itself, but of a certain use which it serves for, exceeding odious and hateful to thieves and robbers, unto whom it is more contrarious and hurtful than the strangle-weed and chokefitch is to the flax, the cats-tail to the brakes, the sheave-grass to the mowers of hay, the fitches to the chickney-pease, the darnel to barley, the hatchet-fitch to the lentil pulse, the antramium to the beans, tares to wheat, ivy to walls, the water-lily to lecherous monks, the birchen rod to the scholars of the college of Navarre in Paris, colewort to the vine-tree, garlic to the loadstone, onions to the sight, fern-seed to women with child, willow-grain to vicious nuns, the yew-tree shade to those that sleep under it, wolfsbane to wolves and libbards, the smell of fig-tree to mad bulls, hemlock to goslings, purslane to the teeth, or oil to trees.
It has probably obtained the name of Wolfsbane, from a tradition that wolves, in searching for particular roots which they in part subsist upon in winter, frequently make a mistake, and eat of this plant, which proves fatal to them.
Actions which produce different results to what are expected are thus spoken of: "You set saffron and there came up wolfsbane." In Devonshire it may be noted that this plant is used to denote anything of value; and it is related of a farmer near Exeter who, when praising a certain farm, remarked, "'Tis a very pretty little place; he'd let so dear as saffron."
It was wolfsbane did it good, beat up in water quite fine." "Be sure. Only 'twas none of Dr. Adlam's remedies, I lay.... Wasn't it Martha's our old Martha?... There, now! I've let go her name.... 'Twas on the tip of my tongue to say it...." Old Maisie's voice was getting faint as she said: "Old Martha Prichard ... the name I go by now, Phoebe darling.... I took it to ... to keep a memory...."
However, as this is a plant much grown in pleasure-grounds on account of its beautiful blue flowers, great care should be taken not to use any roots taken from such places that cannot be well ascertained. ACONITUM Lycoctonum. YELLOW WOLFSBANE. Every part of this plant is accounted poisonous.
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