[Sca-cooks] of sage & toads

[chirhart_1]

Sounds like one to many toad stools in your soup.But I liked it.  From
chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Phelps" <phelpsd at gate.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] of sage & toads


>
> > 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