<p>This comprehensive and entertaining compendium of toad lore surveys the history of the toad as biological entity, literary and artistic subject, mythological symbol, and threatened species. It brings to light a number of unexpected details regardingthe life of the toad, ranging from its role as insect eater in gardens and pharmaceutical ingredient in shamanic hallucinogens, to its time honoured place in witchcraft and its apotheosis in stars as the constellation Bufo. Robert DeGraaff's offbeathistory is exhaustively researched, scientifically precise, graced with high colour art reproductions and illustrations, and written with uncommon wit and humour. Far more than a volume for bufophiles, this is a uniquely insightful and engaging lookat how humans through the ages have responded to and have been influenced by their amphibian neighbours.</p>

The Book of the Toad: A Natural and Magical History of Toad-human Relations

DeGraaff, Robert

Arts & Photography

Lutterworth Pr

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