IT IS the unnoticed
poisoner of the world's farmland.
Are you aware that the passage of Exodus 22:18 «Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live» was originally, in the Hebrew text» «Thou shalt not suffer
a poisoner of wells to live».
There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and
poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.
Juggernaut Books is delighted to announce that director Rensil D'Silva has acquired the rights to Neeraj Chawla's The Last
Poisoners of 6.
Not exact matches
He gives an account
of himself in close accord with the superstitious folk image
of the Jew as ritual murderer,
poisoner, and ruthless enemy
of humanity» but especially
of Christians.
But nowadays the
poisoner works from airplanes, trail bikes and tough pickup trucks that carry him and his thallium bait bucket and his coyote getters to every corner
of the range in a few easy hours.
The final analyses showed that the slabs
of meat were carrying a heavy load
of 1080, which is supposed to be used in predator control only by U.S. Government trappers but, in fact, sifts into the hands
of private
poisoners all over the West.
Says another retired Government trapper, Charles Orlosky, who lives high in a remote area
of the Rocky Mountains: «Around here the
poisoners have wiped out weasel, marten, mink, fox, badger, and they've got the coyote hanging on the ropes.
What I found was that most
of the old trappers had retired or disappeared, and the few that are left have nothing but contempt for the new breed, whom they call «
poisoners.»»
Anyone who remains dubious about the power
of the sheepmen or the impossibility
of serious prosecution
of illegal
poisoners in sheep country has only to study the so - called A ram be I Case, a landmark in the annals
of frustrating Western jurisprudence.
Miles kept up his investigations
of the poisoning practices and more than once nearly came to blows with fellow townsmen and the federal
poisoners.
There is ample evidence that the combination
of stockmen and federal
poisoners has already succeeded in eliminating certain animal populations and endangering others.
To gauge how universal Tetrahymena's germ - protection role might be, Brandl's group fed a colony
of the protozoan another germ that's a major food
poisoner, Listeria monocytogenes.
And then there's the fact that dogs are dying all over town, victims
of an unknown
poisoner.
The auction catalog identified the book as a «
poisoner's cabinet», and much
of the press coverage centered on its potential as an assassin's arsenal, but many
of the plants included have, or were reputed to have curative as well as toxic properties.
With an irresistible cast
of swindlers, forgers, and
poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention
of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale
of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
The strange case
of the wildlife biologist turned cat
poisoner is the latest round in a bitter battle over tens
of millions
of free - roaming feline hunters.
Unfortunately, the strange case
of the accused cat
poisoner didn't end well, either.
The Nico Dauphiné that emerges is a far cry from the sympathetic character portrayed in «Cat Fight» — where, for example, writer John Carey laments: «Unfortunately, the strange case
of the accused cat
poisoner didn't end well.»
Reasons for deliberate self - harm: comparison
of self -
poisoners and self - cutters in a community sample
of adolescents