Question

These round objects were said to sweat and change color near poison. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects from European folklore used in treating poison or epilepsy. Though contemporary sources claimed that they were harvested from the heads of a certain animal, they are now known to be fossils of the extinct Lepidotes fish.
ANSWER: toadstones [or bufonite; accept crepaidina, accept stelon; accept ruber; prompt on stone or rock]
[10e] Edward Topsell claims that a toadstone can be extracted from the head of a toad by placing it on a cloth of this color. A fairy tale character who wears a cloak of this color says “Goodness, what big eyes you have!”
ANSWER: red [accept Little Red Riding Hood; accept shades of red like scarlet]
[10m] Toadstones were also used to detect these beings, who could be discovered by the presence of a caul or detected by cooking eggshells. Fairies were said to “swap” human babies with these deformed creatures.
ANSWER: changelings [accept auf or oaf; accept stocks or fetches; prompt on the fey]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago ADuke A0101020
Chicago BFlorida A0101020
Georgia Tech ABrown A0101020
Georgia Tech BIllinois A0101020
Harvard AChicago C010010
Houston AImperial A0101020
Iowa State APenn A0101020
Johns Hopkins AColumbia B010010
MIT ACornell B0101020
Maryland ACornell A0101020
McGill AYale B010010
Michigan AMinnesota B010010
Minnesota AUC Berkeley A0101020
NYU AUC Berkeley B0101020
North Carolina AIndiana A0101020
Northwestern AColumbia A0101020
Ohio State AStanford A0101020
Penn State ARutgers A0101020
Purdue ARutgers B0101020
Toronto ATexas A0101020
Vanderbilt AFlorida B0101020
Virginia ASouth Carolina A0101020
WUSTL BClaremont A0101020
Yale AWUSTL A0101020