Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CAJANUS
Cajanus, genus Cajanus
(noun) erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics; naturalized in other warm regions
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HYPERICISM
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John’s wort
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