This Summer the bottom of the Gut was filled with Water drop Hemlock .
It’s a deadly Carrot, not for Gin like Angelica But be mistaken for Wild Parsnip , it’s in the same family of plants as cow parsley or the troublesome Giant Hogweed .
After Christmas I went to visit an peice of woodland in East lothian and came across a Hemlock Pine ( so named because it smells like Hemlock , its a Japanese Pine .. Tsuga … in the wood I speculated on why such different plants had the same name … is it in the Latin.. or the Etymology .. a dive into the Wiki world of Etymology gave me all the smell based connections .
What I did find was Anglo-Hibernian name for Hemlock is Devils Porridge or Devils Oats , Deid Man’s Oatmael, Socrates Blood ,
In Greek Conium , Refering to Koneious , meaning to Spin or whirl ,
Konas_Whirl - Vertigo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum
Hemlock Water Drop
Water Hemlock
Dead Man’s Fingers
Dead Tongue
Oenanthe crocata,Wine Flower
Can stain yellow , unlike C.maculatum it smells sweet , but like its sibling it’s poisonous with no antidote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenanthe_crocata
The words Sardonic Grin come from the use of hemlock to kill crimials and the elderly by the Nurgaic people of Sardinia, also some of the First metal workers , mines in Europe. a neat link to this site or early mines and blast furnce.
but the river here was faster flowing then , navigble an inland port and harbour . Whos to say if the Hemlock flurrished on the waters edge.
Poison Sweet poison Yellow Sap of the hemlock sends my synapsis leaping to the Canarys the women that filled the bombs . The chemical porridge slowly posioning their skin . their own slow devils porridge.
Surrounded by water for protection, but in the factory its cordite on skin.
This quiet spot hidden in plain site .
Cordite and fur trim
Oat bread breakfast
Deer run devils hart
Sardonic Smiles
Devils Porridge / Canary Smiles
Cordite Cordiale
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