Talk:Monk's Hood

Dab
Might be good to help people looking for 'monkshood' (the plant) by having a differentiation link on this page. SheRay7 (talk) 15:56, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * done. Disembrangler (talk) 16:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Picture of poisonous plant
An editor has placed a picture of "Monk's Hood" plant in the article. While this is clever, this seems WP:OR somehow. Picture wasn't in book unless it was on cover. It seems to open up the way to a lot of embellishment of other fictional (or even factual) book articles by placing pictures that may (or may not) be appropriate. I think it should be deleted. Student7 (talk) 19:52, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

There is a bit of word play in the book's title, on monk's hood. The ground up root of the plant in the liniment that gets used as a poison in food; the monk's hood that briefly hides the untonsured head of the innocent boy who is the number one suspect for the sergeant; and the overall symbol of the monk's robe that Cadfael wears all the time. The story inspired multiple cover images for the many editions of the book. (use google images to see them all -- one from Harper Collins audio book does put the plant in bloom among the items in the cover image). The author does make a point of using herbs and medicinal plants of that era, accurately. One book discusses the series from the perspective of the herbs, cited in The Cadfael Chronicles.

Many of the articles on the Cadfael books include images from the Wikipedia Commons to clarify points that are real, not fictional, and integral to the plot, in the section called Setting in History. Images, including maps, are helpful in my view. Prairieplant (talk) 13:07, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

1138
This article has been categorized (along with a bunch of others) as occurring in 1138. This is not true and should be rm (with the others). There is (correctly) a category expressly for fiction in the 1130s in which this belongs (and is there). So far, two out of four articles in category "1138" are fictional and did not really occur or even exist, except in the mind of their author and perhaps their readers who (perhaps) suspended their disbelief sufficiently to enjoy it.

The book is construed as being set in 1138. Failing to identify it as fiction (as was done with the other category) is quite misleading. Student7 (talk) 19:26, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I noticed that, but not understand why it was done, to add a specific year, when the decade of the story as fiction was already marked. It sounds like the precise year means it is a story written in that year? If I see it again, I will change it, if you have not already caught the error. --Prairieplant (talk) 21:45, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It is out of all the Cadfael Chronicle series, the novels where the year category was added, it is now deleted. --Prairieplant (talk) 22:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

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