Sorrel Leaf
Sorrel Leaf
A sorrel leaf was sometimes used to bewitch people, as in the case of the Irish witch mentioned in George Sinclair's Satan's Invisible World Displayed (1685), who gave to a girl a leaf of sorrel that the child put into her mouth. Great torture ensued for the child and increased on the approach of the witch.
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