Why does basil smell so fucking amazing
Good points. Wait what was that first thing
@maniculum I guess that one goes into your scorpion collection. Though I didn't have time to check if this is true, yet.
I keep meaning to track down a source for this because it’s crossed my dash before, but the time to really look into it never seems to materialize.
I reblogged this a long time ago but apparently it got lost in the shuffle. The source is Jacques Houllier's De Morbis Internis (1577).
Et cuidam Italo ex frequenti odoratu basilicae herbae natus scorpio in cerebro, vehementes dolores & longos, mortem denique attulit. And a certain Italian who smelled basil frequently had a scorpion born in his brain, which brought on severe and long pains, and finally death.
This is a single anecdote reported by one person, it's very unlikely that brain scorpions were ever a widespread belief.
Reblogging this because Brainscorpions Georg crossed my dash again :-]
