Hey folks, Aaron here. Welcome back to another edition of Deeper Lour, a bonus episode designed to serve as a topical guide for the most recent episode of lore.

My team and I have made hundreds of episodes of this podcast over the last decade, over 320-something, if I could remember correctly.

So I know how frustrating it can be when you hear an

episode, and it sparks a memory of a similar topic from a few years ago, and you simply can't

track it down. And that's where deeper lore comes in. The goal here is to quickly point you in the

direction of some older related episodes so that you can keep this week's topic alive a little

longer and, you know, go deeper into the lore,

thus the name, Deeper lore.

This week, for episode 280, Flower Power, we take a more flavorful approach to folklore.

Now, obviously, a ton of stories that we've covered over the years, focus on people who use

the natural resources around them to do suspicious things. Old women crafting

medicinal cures and being confused as witches, that sort of thing. But for this episode,

we look deeper at the tools rather than the people. But it's not the first time that we've

discussed powerful substances, so here are just three older episodes that pair up real

nicely with this week's new one.

First, episode 81 On the Edge. This episode follows a really bizarre outbreak in a small

French town that turns out to have a fairly natural source, but that didn't stop people

from assuming that it was the work of the devil and generating a massive public panic in the process.

Give this one a listen for the full story.

Next, check out episode 118, Ambition.

It's another French story, but it's focused on a very politically ambitious group of people

and their use of deadly poisons.

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