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  • Italian Novella*Rotunda.
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Filed under Accidental poisoning.

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Youth accidentally takes the poison he intended for his father
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Man accidentally fed bread which his father has poisoned. The wicked man puts poison in the bread he gives a beggar. The beggar gives his loaf to the sonHorse accidentally poisoned instead of master. An attempt is made to give the hero a poisoned cup. He is on horseback and spurs his horse away to avoid the cup. The poison is spilled and enters the horse's ear and kills himSerpent carried by bird lets poison drop into milk and poisons drinkersWoman unwittingly poisons her son. Mistakes poison for medicineMan eats food which is mysteriously poisonedHidden fruit accidentally poisoned by snake

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