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“So poisonous, it’ll kill you dead.”

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Emily Grace Willis
Aug 08, 2025
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But can you touch it?

Don’t some people grow it in gardens?

What if you really needed to know how to use it?

Okay, so that last question is maybe one that most people don’t wonder about, but I like to keep such tidbits of information handy. Perhaps by the end of this writing we’ll both know the answer. This is an installment of Haven Making II: The Wild Ones. Up to bat, one of The Poisonous Ones: Monkshood, aka Aconite aka Wolfsbane aka many more…

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