Let Me Break You

Here's me in my super-nifty sunglasses.

 

Visually speaking, they're the right colour for sure.

 

Yep, the earrings sure are big and pointy. But, I'm totally in love with them.

 

jamming! Yes she is a star!

 

glasses look good on ya. nice pictures

 

deadly night shades,, how in line with the whole beladona head trip ya got goin..

now if only ya could truly be a belladona,..
then what?

love n light,,..

 

Is it just me or did that seem a bit chilly

 

Yeah... I'm a little confused...

 

beautiful classic look!

i love love love the earrings! i want to find some, i think i'd wear them all the time if i did.

 

you chose the name sister..

your not confused,,.. naive perhaps?

http://earthnotes.tripod.com/belladonna.htm

 

Legend has it that Belledonna is an herb cared for by the Devil himself, and that every night but one he spends leisurely tending his prized plants. Only yearly on Walpurgis night will he leave his herbs to prepare for the witches' sabbath

A 1324 investigation into witchcraft stated "in rifleing the closet of the ladie, they found a pipe of oyntment, wherewith she greased the staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin, when and in what manner she listed".

A 15th century account reads: " But the vulgar believe and the witches confess, that on certain days and nights they anoint a staff and ride on it to the appointed place or anoint themselves under the arms or in other hairy places and sometimes carry charms under the hair".

In 1585, Thomas Lupton was recorded to say: " Dwale makes one to sleep while he is cut or burnt by cauterizing". It is possible the plant was used as an effective, but dangerous anesthetic.

In 1589 it was recorded that after taking Belladonna "a man would seem sometimes to be changed into a fish; and flinging out his arms, would swim on the ground; sometimes he would seem to skip up and down and then dive down again."

In 1597, Gerard stated that the leaves moistened in vinegar and laid apon the head would induce sleep.

It was reported that after the flying ointment was prepared, the witch would " ...rub all parts of the body exceedingly, till they look red, and are very hot, so that the pores may be opened, and the flesh soluble and loose. They add either fat or oil so that the force of the ointment may pierce inwardly, and so be more effectual." ( Reginald Scot 1584 ) Inunction ( allowing a drug to be absorbed through the skin ) would allow a lower and more constant level of the alkaloids to be present in the bloodstream.

This plant also has a long history of being used as a poison, being called dwale. That name is either a derivative of the French word deuil, for grief or sorrow, or from the Scandanavian word dool, for sleep or delay.

During the time of Duncan I of Scotland's rule ( around A.D. 1035 ), an entire army of invading Danes led by King Sven of Norway were poisoned and defeated by Belledonna. There are conflicting legends as to whether the Danes were poisoned by eating meal that had been adulterated with Belladonna, or by drinking a liquor that contained its infusion.

In earlier times still, the troops of Marcus Antonius were to have been poisoned by belladonna during the Parathion wars.

A veneficae ( a specialist in botanical drugs ) often employed belladonna as an ingredient in poisons giving their black art the name of veneficium.

Belladonna was also used during the middle ages by torturers to gain confessions from stubborn victims. This psychochemical torture would confuse and weaken their victims, making them unsure of what was fantasy or reality, what they had done or had merely imagined. Many false confessions were elicited in this manner.

The ancient Greeks knew of the intoxicating effects of this plant, and it was believed to have been added to the wine of Bacchanals to give it a legendary potency. The maenods of the orgies of Dionysus would ingest Belladonna and would either throw themselves into the arms of male worshipers or tear them apart and eat them. Hmmm.

Roman priests were known to have drank an infusion of Belladonna before making supplications to Bellona, their Goddess of War, for a victory in battle

 

I fully know what belladonna is, merely because that *is* what inspired my name/ID... I was just confused by the wording of your first post.

 

wont break me,,..

nor does that mindset intrigue me..

so .. i guess thats settled..

love n lite..

 

See, now I'm confused, again...:& I didn't mean to seem snarky or anything, I just have found the folklore attached to 'belladonna' interesting, so I've done a far amount of research on it. I'll be the first to admit my own naivety on countless subjects, but I was just saying that I do know about belladonna. I'm sorry if anything was taken the wrong way...

 

tis all good in my world,, nuthin i type should be taken the wrong way..

should be taken the way you choose to take it..

luv n lite

 

Bella... You are so beautiful!



YUMMY!!!

 

I thought bella and donna meant beautiful woman in italian

 

Hmmmm... I'm not sure YankNBurn. I don't speak any Italian...

 

redheads are sexy, everyone knows taht

 

http://babynamecollection.com/bella.html Yup for Bella


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna Yup for Donna

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/nighde05.html the plant

So I guess you can say that belladonna is something deceptive that allures you can be beneficial to you but handles wrong can kill you! Yup that covers both items, the plant and a beautiful woman! lol