There's a YouTube explainer video for everything.
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1334183089082298368
Amusing little Anglo-Saxon factoid: back then, in the primitive era of medicine, the English were convinced that toads were poisonous, just as poisonous as snakes. And it wasn't just them! It was a belief that went all the way back to the proto-Indo-Europeans.
English words "frog" and "toad" aren't proto-Indo-European, at least as far as we know. But check out the PIE word for "wart." It's *wordhₓos. Transparent, hasn't changed over 7,000 years. Now, the PIE word for "frog?" Yup: *wordhₓos. They thought frogs & toads gave you warts.
Of course, much later in history the Europeans would hit the New World and discover ACTUAL poisonous frogs (like the poison dart frogs of Central/South America). But European frogs & toads? Nope. Just folk myth that became universal because of their warty looking skin.
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