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the bitter green ghost behind absinthe, banned for a century over a hangover myth
means A bitter, aromatic plant (Artemisia absinthium) long used to flavor absinthe and vermouth and as a folk medicine, and a byword for anything bitter or grievous.
from From Old English 'wermod,' a name whose deeper roots are uncertain. The modern spelling is folk etymology at work: English speakers reshaped the unfamiliar 'wermod' into the more sensible-looking 'worm-wood,' helped along by the plant's real use as a vermifuge — a remedy to expel intestinal worms. (That same Old English 'wermod,' by another path through French, gives us 'vermouth.') The 'bitter' sense runs deep in English; the King James Bible turns wormwood into a figure for bitterness and sorrow.
- absinthe soul
- Gives the spirit its name and signature bitterness
- thujone scare
- Its compound got absinthe outlawed worldwide
- name origin
- Old English for worm-driving deworming medicine
- biblical star
- Revelation names a falling star Wormwood
- vermouth root
- German wermut for wormwood birthed the word
chernobyl disaster — ukrainian nuclear plant explosion in 1986; revelation 8:11 calls the third trumpet 'wormwood,' and locals called the fallout zone that name
artemisia absinthium — the actual plant species used to make absinthe liqueur, native to central asia and europe