[Sca-cooks] of sage & toads

[Dan Phelps]

> 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?

Try the librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library

http://www.folger.edu/Home_02B.html

They helped me with an even more obscure question.

Dan

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