08-19-2015, 05:55 PM
(08-19-2015, 04:36 PM)irukandji Wrote: The one thing I do know. No hexenbiest working on Grimms would have found them the old fashioned way much less determine that a Grimm had more than the average human.
For centuries, village wisewomen rubbed moldy bread on infected wounds, gave foxglove tea for heart palpitations, and gave slippery elm bark and pennyroyal tea to young women whose cycles were late. They didn't know that bread mold was the natural source of penicillin, that foxglove was the natural source of digitalis, or that chemicals in those herbs can cause spontaneous abortions---they just knew that they worked. There's no reason to know that the old hexenbiesten knew about the extra rods--just that doing thus-and-so would neutralize a Grimm's power.