Toad based Devon charm for curing skin disease.

Left: Bufo bufo (Common Toad) and Right: Bufo calamita / Bufo viridis (Natterjack Toad) - The Natterjack toad is a very rare toad found in Devon. - By derivative work: B kimmel (talk) Guruin_parotoideak.jpg (Guruin_parotoideak.jpg) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

"Place the poison found in a. toad's head in a leathern bag one inch square : enclose this in a white silk bag, tie it round the neck, allowing the bag to lie on the pit of the stomach. On the third day the patient will be sick. Remove and bury the bag. As it rots so will the patient get well."

Hewett 1900