"Wolf's bane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... named as being as powerful in its action as gunpowder is the Aconitum Napellus (the Wolf's bane or Monk's-hood). It is a member of a large family, all of which are more or less poisonous, and the common Monk's-hood as much so as any. Two species are found in America, but, for the most part, the family is confined to the northern portion of the Eastern Hemisphere, ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... But—would your worship believe it?—my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane." ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
