Originally published at Lughnasa 1998. Henbane, whose botanical name is Hyoscyamus niger, is a member of the Solanaceae order of plants which includes such innocuous members as the humble potato and tomato but also highly poisonous and notorious ones such as belladonna, mandrake and the daturas.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. English: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthÃ©lemy in French) was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Protestants).
The 1923 Rosewood Massacre. Rosewood, FL. The name is now etched as a horrible crime in US annals. It's part of a pattern that includes the destruction of Black Wall Street in Oklahoma, the massacre of the Independents of Color in Cuba in 1912, Slocum, TX, and many others.