Toad stone

Borax - toad stone. Illustration from the Hortus sanitatis Mainz 1491

Toad stone ( borax ) was called a calculus that was supposed to grow in the toad's head. Swallowed and excreted with the bowel movement, the toad stone should detoxify the body. Set as a ring or worn around the neck as an amulet, it should protect against poisoning.

literature

Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli . Toad stone. In: Concise dictionary of German superstition . Volume V, De Gruyter, Berlin 1933, columns 631-634

Individual evidence

↑ Konrad von Megenberg . 14th century book of nature . Output. Franz Pfeiffer . Konrad von Megenberg. Book of nature. Aue, Stuttgart 1861, p. 436 (Von den Steinen, Chapter 12) (digitized version)
↑ Hortus sanitatis , Mainz 1491, De lapidibus , Chapter 27: Borax (digitized version)
^ Hortus sanitatis . Strasbourg 1529, From the Stones , Chapter 27: Borax - Krottenstein (digitized)
↑ Conrad Gessner . Thierbuch … Zurich 1583, sheet 169v (digitized version )

↑ Nicolas Lémery . Complete material lexicon . Initially drafted in French, but now after the third edition, which has been enlarged by a large [...] edition, translated into high German / by Christoph Friedrich Richtern, [...]. Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Braun, 1721, Sp. 198 (digitized version)

[1] Konrad von Megenberg . 14th century book of nature . Output. Franz Pfeiffer . Konrad von Megenberg. Book of nature. Aue, Stuttgart 1861, p. 436 (Von den Steinen, Chapter 12) (digitized version)

[2] Hortus sanitatis , Mainz 1491, De lapidibus , Chapter 27: Borax (digitized version)

[3] Hortus sanitatis . Strasbourg 1529, From the Stones , Chapter 27: Borax - Krottenstein (digitized)

[4] Conrad Gessner . Thierbuch … Zurich 1583, sheet 169v (digitized version )

[5] Nicolas Lémery . Complete material lexicon . Initially drafted in French, but now after the third edition, which has been enlarged by a large [...] edition, translated into high German / by Christoph Friedrich Richtern, [...]. Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Braun, 1721, Sp. 198 (digitized version)