How to Defend Yourself from Basil

1579

“An Italian, through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll, had a Scorpion bred in his braine; which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him, but also at the last kylled him… Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll.”

Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things

Is your pesto obsession really worth the risk of death by grievous brain scorpion?