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For most items, we will not end the auction early for offers we would prefer to let them run and bring what they will.All items sold as-is, all sales final!Please use shipping calculator to determine shipping. If you have any specific questions about the item or it's condition, please contact us and we will do the best we can to reply in a timely manner. We do our best to accurately describe and photograph our items and take note of any wear or damage we can see. As with most vintage and antique items, there may be some wear consistent with age and use. Our business offers a wide variety of new, used, vintage, and antique items and furniture. Book in very good condition, no damage, pages/binding intact.We are a local family-run Baltimore estate liquidation company, and currently have 2 retail stores. Dust jacket has scratches/marks, some dust/dirt. It pictures a young, beautiful Venetian “belladonna” who may have used atropine drops to dilate the pupils of her eyes to enhance their beauty.Ryan's Relics Auctions This auction is for 'Witchcraft' edited by Barbara Rosen, published by Taplinger Publishing, 1972. There is a painting, “Woman with a Mirror” by the Renaissance painter, Titian, that hangs in the Louvre Museum. The species epithet comes from the Italian word “belladonna” for beautiful woman, a reference to this plants’ use by Venetian ladies of the court who dilated their pupils with a tincture of belladonna eye-drops. The genus name of belladonna is a derivation of Atropos, meaning “inexorable” or “inflexible,” the Fate that severs the thread of life. Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis measures and allots the length of one’s life, and Atropos severs it.

In Greek mythology, the three Fates (Moirai) were responsible for spinning, measuring the length of human life, and ending it. When Linnaeus formally applied a scientific name to this plant in 1753, he acknowledged its toxic nature as well as its social value.

This extremely poisonous plant has a long and colorful history of use and abuse. The original range of Atropa belladonna was from southern Europe to Asia but today is naturalized in many parts of the world.

Deadly Nightshade by Peter Haining