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Wolfsbane
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Monkshood or Wolfsbane has a long history of association with witchcraft. Having proved too dangerously toxic for the legitimate pharmacy, it fell to the province of sorcerers & witches.
(Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Family: Ranunculaceae)
Acorus gramineus variegatus (Sweet Flag, Family: Acoraceae)
Acrostichum aureum (Piai Raya, Golden Leather Fern, Mangrove Fern , Family: Pteridaceae) ...
Downy Wolfsbane [English]: Aconitum orientale
Downy Wood Mint [English]: Blephilia ciliata
Downy Woodmint [English]: Blephilia ciliata
Downy Woundwort [English]: Stachys germanica
Downy Yellow False Foxglove [English]: Aureolaria virginica ...
Monkshood, Aconite, or Wolfsbane
Alfalfa or Lucerne
Alsike Clover, Red Clover, White Clover
Arrowgrass
Baneberry, Dolls Eyes, White Cohosh, Snakeberry
Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Black Locust ...
Apocynum, the Latin for "dog bane", the name given the Eurasian species Aconitum lycoctonum, known today as Purple Wolfsbane; from the Greek apokunon (apokunon), also "dog bane", applied to Marsdenia erecta, ...
In an old recipe called 'Witches' Ointment' the juice of Five-leaf Grass, smallage and wolfsbane is mixed with the fat of children dug up from their graves and added to fine wheat flour.
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It might have been used in herbal medicine in the past, although it could have been confused with Arnica montana (arnica) or Aconitum lycoctonum (wolfsbane), which have both also been known by the common name ‘leopard’s bane’.
Flor de tabaco (castellano), Leopardsbane (inglés), Mountain arnica (inglés), Mountain tobacco (inglés), Tabac de pastor (catalán), Tabaco de montaña (castellano), Talpa (castellano), Talpica (castellano), Usin-belar (vasco), Wolfsbane ...
 See also: Monkshood, Aconitum, May, Aconite, Medic
  
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