The Great Poisons

We have our mnemonic rhyming poem for the twenty-five Great Medicines.
There should also be one for the twenty-five Great Poisons.

Your coven's list will vary, of course, depending on where you live in the world.

THE GREAT POISONS

These plants may lay your health to waste,
Be careful in your touch and taste.

Ivy, Oak, and Sumac,
First-named Poison all,
The lordly Giant Hogweed,
White-flowered, umbelled, tall.

The wine-skinned Elder berries
Should not be eaten raw,
And those of Deadly Nightshade
Must never pass your jaw.

The eyes of the Pea Rosary
Will stare you down to death,
And Castor Bean or Wolfsbane
Will stop your lungs and breath . . .

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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