Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 14, 2013

How do you KNOW she’s a witch!?!

Gotta love the Church! They’re still at it centuries later………… :/

For a time in history, people believed that the “apple” in the Garden of Eden was really a tomato!

Tomato and Potato both members of the Nightshade Family

Now I just saw a TV show that claims that nobody ever thought that tomatoes were poisonous, they were just not liked..Eh, depends on who’s talking I guess..\\//_

I now a lady who is allergic to tomatos, she has a VERY bad reaction if she eats even a very small amount.Something like that may have caused people to think they were poison.

They do. At the time they were thought to be poisonous, people called them Wolf Berries too.

The Church had nothing to do with it; it was a political quarrel, in which she was accused of poisoning her stepson, King Henry V. The fact that she was only held prisoner (which, at that time, didn’t even count as a punishment) and was then released after four years indicates that those in power couldn’t have taken it very seriously. Someone must just have wanted her moved off the board for a while, and the poisoning/witchcraft charge was just a device.

As to tomatoes:A) Parts of the tomato plant are poisonous, but not the fruit.B) And some people understood that.C) But some people did not. My great-great-grandmother, who died sometime in the 1920s, refused to eat one all her life on the grounds that they were poisonous.

It could have been anything.

And I think she was charged with witchcraft because she was more Protestant than Catholic.

I’ve heard that a tomato plant can be grafted onto a jimson weed and create a poisonous tomato. true or false?(I’m not going to try it to find out!)One of the chemicals in a jimson weed is atropene -the antidote for nerve gas!

You barbarian! Killing a poor squirrel!

The tomato was once called “the wolf peach” by people who thought it deadly.

Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous because people ate off of lead plates, and the acid in the tomato juice dissolved the acid, giving everyone lead poisoning. Or so I’ve heard…

I thought the reason people thought they were poisonous was due to the fact that they are part of the nightshade family.

And THEREFORE…..

The leaves of the tomato plant are poisonous.