Let's get one thing straight people. "She drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" has nothing to do with Heroin.
The song writer has stated it is about absinthe.
Seeing as the traditional way to drink Absinthe was to rest a slotted silver spoon over a glass which contains a small amount of absinthe.
You then place a sugar cube on the slotted silver spoon, then pour water over the sugar cube and spoon to dilute and sweeten the absinthe,
as for the"drove herself to madness" part;
Absinthe contains wormwood, I would say when this song was written, absinthe contained more wormwood than it would these days.
Wormwood is an hallucinagenic, and contains thujone.
In witchcraft, and herbology, Wormwood, and a few other varieties of Artemisia, are known as a dream herb, a herbal medicine for a few reasons (anti-parasitic,anti-inflammatory,anti-septic)and is used in quite a lot of spells and potions.
It can be toxic in high doses, and has stories of consumers of absinthe going mad from drinking to excess.
Not everything that makes you hallucinate is a hard drug like LCD or heroine people.
Let's get one thing straight people. "She drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" has nothing to do with Heroin. The song writer has stated it is about absinthe. Seeing as the traditional way to drink Absinthe was to rest a slotted silver spoon over a glass which contains a small amount of absinthe. You then place a sugar cube on the slotted silver spoon, then pour water over the sugar cube and spoon to dilute and sweeten the absinthe, as for the"drove herself to madness" part; Absinthe contains wormwood, I would say when this song was written, absinthe contained more wormwood than it would these days. Wormwood is an hallucinagenic, and contains thujone.
In witchcraft, and herbology, Wormwood, and a few other varieties of Artemisia, are known as a dream herb, a herbal medicine for a few reasons (anti-parasitic,anti-inflammatory,anti-septic)and is used in quite a lot of spells and potions. It can be toxic in high doses, and has stories of consumers of absinthe going mad from drinking to excess. Not everything that makes you hallucinate is a hard drug like LCD or heroine people.
@WEyesOwl Finally someone who knows what that's about.
@WEyesOwl Finally someone who knows what that's about.