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Post by Angaridatha on Feb 14, 2005 18:30:16 GMT -5
Wolfbane is also known as Monkshood.
Monkshood's seeds, leaves, and roots are poisonous, and are very dangerous if eaten or if the juices get inside cuts. Monkshood was also known as Aconite, Garden Wolfbane, Helmet Flower, Friar's Cap, or Soldier's Cap. It was called Wolfbane or Wolf's Bane because meat saturated with its juice was used as a wolf poison during the middle ages. Supposedly the 'quintessential plant of the occult'. It has beautiful purple flower spikes. It was used in combination with belladonna to make a flying ointment, and in combination with water parsnip, cinquefoil, belladonna, and soot to make an ointment of the imagination, that allowed witches to contact the other side by rubbing on there temples and wrists. It contains the deadly poison aconitine, which slows heart rate, decreases blood pressure, and numbs pain. The ancient Greeks believed monkshood sprouted from the spittle of the hellhound Cerberus. Monkshood poisoning was often attributed to sorcery. Because of the difficulty in dosing the drug, as an ingredient in love philtres, "the result was often not so much an increase in the ability to love as it was love frenzy or even death". Wolf's bane was used as an ingredient for a potion in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown.". [glow=red,2,300]DO NOT CONSUME!!!!!!!!!![/glow]
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Post by Saiok Tarek on Feb 14, 2005 20:36:54 GMT -5
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