🟥 In Europe and Britain, young girls once placed a posy of bay leaves under their pillows on the night before St. Valentine's Day so that they would have dreams of their future husbands.
🟥 Entomologists use bay leaves in killing jars. The crushed, fresh leaves, when placed under a sheet of paper, emit toxic vapours - possibly cyanide - that slowly kill insects and leave the specimens pliant and easy to mount.
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