#pungo

A rare woodland Pokémon with an omnivorous diet, Leafvee typically has a penchant for earthen and bitter flavors. It can scarf down the horridly bitter Durin Berry in just two bites.

Then again that might've been just my own 7th-grade English teacher, since we were reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. (Which I liked so much I bought my own copy as an adult!)

Anyway the witch of Pungo was a real person named Grace Sherwood, and she was the last person convicted of witchcraft in the state of Virginia--other people were tried but found not guilty, up until 1802! (Pungo is a swampy area of Virginia Beach where they grow a lot of strawberries.)

She lived in the late 1600's/early 1700's and was tried for witchcraft several times, including the trial by ducking*, after which she was jailed for multiple years, though when she was released from jail they gave her back her land at least.

I remember that one of the legends was that all the rosemary growing in Virginia Beach came from a plant she brought over from England, sailing in an eggshell.**

Anyway, modern historians are pretty sure she was accused of witchcraft in part because people found her annoying, and in part because after her husband died she lived alone on 145 acres and wore trousers while working. She was Weird and also how dare a woman own that much land. Also she grew herbs (not just rosemary) and was reportedly a midwife--the day before the ducking trial, "Sherwood was taken inside Lynnhaven Parish Church, placed on a stool and ordered to ask for forgiveness for her witchery. She replied, 'I be not a witch, I be a healer.'"

She was officially pardoned in 2006, but the road leading to the location of her ducking trial (among multiple other locations in the area) is still called Witchduck Road.