Dittany of Crete grows only on steep, rocky mountainsides and gorges on the island of Crete, in the Aegean sea. It’s a symbol of …
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Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger): It gave oracles their sight and made witches fly, yellow blossoms on one of the darkest of plants inhabiting a deadly corner of the Witch’s Garden
The henbane's first effect was purely physical discomfort. My limbs lost certainty, pains hammered in my head, and I began to feel …
From The History Trekker: A bedtime story for a forgetful country …
It was another spring, the night of March 5, 1770, in Boston, which was already a hotbed of unrest against a government which many …
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A strange account of the monster rattlesnake Big Jim, who from his lair on Rattlesnake Bluff terrorized the Skillet Fork and Wabash river valleys … (or Snakes on a Plain)
Rattlesnake bluff, home of the legendary rattlesnake Big Jim is a heavily wooded bluff overlooking the Skillet Fork River, in …
