toad-stool

You better hike back and have Brother Pharmacist brew you up one of his toad-stool specials.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

-- The name "toad-flax" is evidently put by mistake, in Owen's _Dictionary_, for "toad-stool," a fungus, the

Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Various

"Fairy, paint me a picture, here on the smooth surface of the toad-stool, for I have never seen one."

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Poor hurt wings! how they quivered and pained as the point of their fastenings pressed hither and thither over the surface of the toad-stool, and crushed and dragged and rent them in its course!

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

A jet of flame and a spreading toad-stool of thick white smoke told us he had fired.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

The elf that lived in the toad-stool looked up as the tears fell upon him, and gathered them up from his fungous coat, where they sparkled like dew.

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

"Why," replied Lub, "I supposed it was a regular giant puff-ball, one of the toad-stool kind that go off with a crack and a puff of smoke when you kick 'em."

Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge Silas K. Boone

The toad was popularly thought to [374] impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The fuel consists of nine different sorts of wood, and the spectators cast into the flames a kind of toad-stool (Bäran) in order to counteract the power of the Trolls and other evil spirits, who are believed to be abroad that night; for at that mystic season the mountains open and from their cavernous depths the uncanny crew pours forth to dance and disport themselves for a time.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The fuel consists of nine different sorts of wood, and the spectators cast into the flames a kind of toad-stool (Bäran) in order to counteract the power of the Trolls and other evil spirits, who are believed to be abroad that night; for at that mystic season the mountains open and from their cavernous depths the uncanny crew pours forth to dance and disport themselves for a time.

Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 5. The Midsummer Fires 1922