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).
Residents of St. Augustine even burned effigies of John Hancock and Sam Adams in protest of the Declaration of Independence. Thousands of loyalists fled there over the course of the war, including military commander Thomas Brown, who arrived after being tarred, feathered and beaten by Sons of Liberty members in 1775.