DWQA Questions › Tag: milk sicknessFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesA great deal of witchcraft and belief in witchcraft revolved around agriculture. One particularly interesting belief was the notion that witches could steal a cow’s milk with the use of a towel. The story goes that the witch would hang a towel on a rack, kneed and squeeze a corner of the towel as if it was a teat, and draw milk out of the towel and into a waiting bucket as if it was the cow itself. This was suspected when farmers would suddenly and unexpectedly have “dry cows.” Is there ANY truth to these stories? What is the real backstory?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses156 views0 answers0 votes“Milk sickness” is a problem only dairy farmers remain aware of. But in the 1800s it was a huge problem. Abraham Lincoln’s own mother died of it at a young age. Turns out, the problem comes from cows ingesting a particular weed, the “snakeroot plant.” The plant is toxic to humans, but apparently not to numerous herbivore animals. The toxin gets into the milk and can inflict humans with serious illness and even death. Before the cause of this danger was finally discovered, milk sickness was often attributed to witchcraft. Could this plant be from the same beings who introduced witchcraft itself? Is the plant itself an extraterrestrial import? If so, who brought it, and roughly when? Are new problematic species of animals and plants still being imported today, or very recently if not currently? And if they have stopped, why?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses142 views0 answers0 votes
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