Abstract: This article studies the poisoned body in the context of sixteenth and seventeenth-century woodland communities in Southern Lorraine. It opens up debate about a question which cannot be reduced to the case of poisonings caused by absorbing various drinks or foods. The results are based on a semantic study of the discourse of simplices which gives us, via language, a synthetic insight into the symptoms which made people of the time believe they were being confronted with a poisoned body.
