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Quotes About Belladonna

Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.
~ Helen Stringer, Spellbinder
His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
According to philologist John Allegro in his speculative The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, these links between eros and religion also link back to mind drugs – specifically, to the phallic-looking amanita muscaria mushroom, whose effects are similar to belladonna's, and which is still used for magic purposes by Siberian shamans. Moreover, according to Allegro's hypothesis, it was worshipped as a god throughout Europe and Asia in the late Stone Age.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Perhaps, in the year 2598, some historians will claim that there never were "hippies," while others will claim that hippies existed but didn't actually smoke marijuana, and a third group will insist that the hippies, always stoned out of the skulls on belladonna, ran through the streets attacking innocent bystanders.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous … but such lovely colors.
~ Anthony Horowitz
gave Mr. Davis belladonna to stop the pain—
~ Gore Vidal
Ester saw that she'd used belladonna drops to dilate them, sacrificing the day's vision for the chance to seem to Thomas more melting, more womanly.
~ Rachel Kadish
foxglove IN THE oleander RIGHT DOSE moonseed EVERYTHING belladonna IS A POISON love.
~ Unknown