Banish the notion that anything natural must be good for you – 2/3 of plants are dangerous to humans. Thankfully, it’s often parts of the plants we rarely encounter, like the bulbs, or their berries are too unpleasant for us to eat in vast quantities. Yet aconite, belladonna, and hellebore show up in fiction, myth, and unfortunately fact as plants often employed as murder weapons. Look at hellebore, used to poison enemy water supplies in the ancient world, or poison hemlock, used in the execution of Socrates. This talk will explore the folklore of those poisonous plants employed in murder, both fictional and real, with the emphasis on the plant lore rather than the gory details. She is fascinated by plant lore, ghost stories, lost gods, and divination.