[Sca-cooks] of sage & toads

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 04:27 PM 2/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I'm trying to find a source of a medieval story, & coming up empty-handed.
>The story goes that a woman feeds her husband something with sage in it. He
>promptly drops dead & the authorities claim she poisoned him with the sage.
>To prove them wrong she eats some & dies instantly.  The authorities dig up
>the sage plant & discover a toad underneath, which they of course blame for
>poisoning the plant. IIRC, they kill it & find a toad-stone in its head.
>
>Does this sound familiar to anyone here?

Yes. I've read it too, but I don't remember where. COuld it be in the
_Decameron_?

'Lainie
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