"If a duck be dried into powder, and put into water, frogs are soon generated; but if he be baked into a pie, and cut into pieces, and be put into a moist place underground, toads are generated."

"Of the herb Garden-Basil, bruised, and put between two stones, are generated scorpions"

-from Dictionnaire Infernale, Paris, 1823
by Collin de Plancy