Bane

:For other uses of the word bane, see bane (disambiguation).

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The meaning of bane as an English form of nemesis, the bringer of ruin, dates only from 1577. Now an affliction, curse, evil, ill, plague, scourge or woe, in Old English bana had a more specific and immediate meaning, of "slayer", "murderer."

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In the Middle Ages, a number of plants were thought to have poisonous or prophylactic qualities, which would have dire consequences (Henbane) or liminal ones, like "Wolfsbane" ("Aconite", Aconitum). Aconite is thoroughly poisonous, but no one would bait a wolf-trap with it. So its qualities of a "bane" must be protective, for the wolf is more dangerous than a mere ravening carnivore. Many medieval Europeans believed that they could become a werewolf. Aconite was the toxic entheogen that could keep the dire transformation from happening. Milder poisoning, at a later date, was thought to trouble sheep in the U.S. southeast, if they strayed into woodland and nibbled Kalmis latifolia, or "sheep's bane").

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English: English in common usage may refer to:...

Nemesis: A nemesis is a seemingly unbeatable or unconquerable enemy, often used as a foil to the protagonist, where interaction between the hero and his antagonist forms the main conflict of the story....

Old English: Old English (Englisc, Anglisc, Ænglisc) or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily th...

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