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Atropa belladonna – A Plant of Fate and Witches
(Folklore) - “He knows her shifts and haunts, And all her wiles and turns. The venom’d plants Wherewith she kills! where the sad Mandrake grows, Whose groans are dreadful! the dead-numming Nightshade! The stupefying Hemlock! Adder’s-tongue! And Martagan!” – Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd: Or, A Tale of Robin Hood