[Sca-cooks] Re: period poisons...

[Dan Phelps]

Was written:

> >From the North of Scotland:  Catch a sea snake (yeah, one of those nasty
> chase-you-up-on-shore critters).  Milk it for venom.  Mix the venom with
> oil--carefully as the venom is a neurotoxin and therefore --- Put the
> mixture inside your enemy's gloves.  Venom seeps through skin.  Enemy
> dies.  You party.
>
IIRC sea snakes are indigenous to the Pacific tropics...  that being true
while it is possible that such an exotic poison was inported in period
albeit very late I would class it in rarity just beyond Elizabeth bananas.
;-)

Daniel
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