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 Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day was the culmination of a series of events: 1  The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which put an end to the third War of Religion on 8 August 1570.  The marriage between Henry III of Navarre and Margaret of Valois on 18 August 1572.