(Read Now) Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants *eBooks

Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants through this beautifully produced, gorgeously illustrated compendium. ??If you drink much from a bottle marked ?poison,? it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.? ? Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland ?In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. Concealed and deliberate, it?s a crime that requires advance planning and that for many centuries could go virtually undetected. And yet there is a fine line between healing and killing: the difference lies only in the dosage! In Botanical Curses and Poisons, Fez Inkwright returns to folkloric and historical archives to reveal the fascinating, untold stories behind a variety of lethal plants, witching herbs, and funghi. Going from A to Z, she covers everything from apple (think of the poisoned fruit in ?Snow White?) and the hallucinogenic angel?s trumpet to laurel, which emits toxic fumes, to oleander (a