You might know it from the Wizarding World, but in real life, Devil’s Snare doesn’t strangle; it intoxicates, leading victims down a dark path of respiratory distress, fever, delirium and psychosis before their death. A member of the nightshade family, Datura stramonium has been poisoning people and livestock for centuries. In this case, what doesn’t kill you <i>won’t</i> make you stronger - it will send you on a long-lasting, terrifying trip. In the U.S, this plant is often called Jamestown weed after a group of soldiers in Virginia in the 1600s who ingested it and hallucinated for eleven days straight. Yikes.

Other nicknames like the Devil’s Trumpet, Locoweed, Beelzebub’s twinkie and the Devil's Cucumber should tell you everything you need to know about this plant: it’s not to be messed with.