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Toadstone

The toadstone, also known as bufonite (from Latin bufo, "toad"), is a mythical stone or gem that was thought to be found in the head of a toad. It was supposed to be an antidote to poison and in this it is like batrachite, supposedly formed in the heads of frogs. Toadstones were actually the button-like fossilized teeth of Lepidotes, an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They appeared to be "stones that are perfect in form" and were set by European jewellers into magical rings and amulets from Medieval times until the 18th century. more »

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She joins the crowds as the watch with awe
The soldiers marching home from war
They beat the drums and they blow their horns
Victorious they have returned

The children run to their fathers arms
Their wives relieved they're safe from harm
Leonora's joy to anguish turns
Her William has not returned

My child may God look down on thee
Her mother says to sooth her grief
Oh mother! Mother! He is gone
I know not how to carry on

I curse the God whom with wilful malice
Took my sweet William from me
Does he heed my grief? Can he comprehend
Of the pain that he's made me feel?

God please have mercy on this child
And forgive her for this sin
She knows not what she means Lord
As her anguish is so strong within

She hears the steady drum of hooves outside
And then she hears her William's voice
My darling ride away with me tonight
For love our marriage bed awaits

One hundred miles must we ride tonight
Before the first light of the dawn
Our marriage bed has room for both of us
Four sides, a bottom and a lid

So charging onward through the night
The sparks spurt, up the stones run round
And as they hurried through the gates
Her William's armour fell away

Gone were the eyes that she fell in love with,
Gone the lips she longed to kiss
Now stands a morte with a grinning skull,
Draped in a cloak that hangs like mist

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