This maiden, sometimes referred to as the “(),” would, as a young girl, be fed “tolerably minute, but gradually increasing, amounts of poison or snake venom, and that by the time she was an attractive young woman, the level of toxin in her body would be so high that she could be sent to an enemy king as a gift. Upon kissing her, making love to her, or even just sharing glass of wine with her, he would instantly fall dead.”