Shakespeare in 'As You Like It' talked about toadstones in the following lines:
Sweet the uses of adversity.
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Even in earlier literature toadstones have been mentioned and many myths have been woven around them. They find a mention in literature as early as the Roman writer Pliny the Elder. It is a stone that was worn as a charm and believed to have been formed in the body of a toad.
Sweet the uses of adversity.
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Even in earlier literature toadstones have been mentioned and many myths have been woven around them. They find a mention in literature as early as the Roman writer Pliny the Elder. It is a stone that was worn as a charm and believed to have been formed in the body of a toad.
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