Reply #5: I had not thought of that: women as healers and cooks had access [View All]

[roughsatori]

to medicinal and poisonous herbs, and would due to lack of power attempt to change their conditions using what was at hand: herbs and chemicals.

When I was a child, my mother put arsenic in my fathers coffee and pancakes(he was a wife-beating, child-abusing alcoholic, he became very ill but lived. My father is now sober for years and does not abuse her anymore either. I did not know this story until recently, my Mother told me, she said it was the hardest thing she ever told a Priest during confession. LOL