Editing Aconitine (section)

==In popular culture==
Aconitine was a favorite poison in the ancient world. The poet [[Ovid]], referring to the proverbial dislike of stepmothers for their step-children, writes:

<blockquote><poem>''Lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae''.<ref>Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.147</ref>

Fearsome stepmothers mix lurid aconites.</poem> </blockquote>

Aconitine was also made famous by its use in [[Oscar Wilde]]'s 1891 story "[[Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (short story)|Lord Arthur Savile's Crime]]".  Aconite also plays a prominent role in James Joyce's ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', in which the father to protagonist Leopold Bloom used [[pastilles]] of the chemical to commit suicide.  Aconitine poisoning plays a key role in the murder mystery ''Breakdown'' by [[Jonathan Kellerman]] (2016). In [[Twin Peaks (season 3)|''Twin Peaks'' season 3]] part 13, aconitine is suggested as a means to poison the main character.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/recap/twin-peaks-season-3-episode-13 |title=Twin Peaks recap: 'The Return: Part 13' |last=Jensen |first=Jeff |date=7 August 2017 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=4 May 2020 |quote="Clark offered to sell him Aconitine, a toxin with a rich literary history."}}</ref>

''Monk's Hood'' is the name of the third Cadfael novel written in 1980 by [[Ellis Peters]]. The novel was made into an episode of the television series ''[[Cadfael]]'' starring [[Derek Jacobi]].

In the third season of the Netflix series ''[[You (TV series)|You]]'', two of the main characters poison each other with aconitine. One survives (due to a lower dose and an antidote), and the other is killed. 

Hannah McKay ([[Yvonne Strahovski]]), a serial killer in the Showtime series ''[[Dexter (TV series)|Dexter]]'' uses aconite on at least three occasions to poison her victims.

In season 2 episode 16 of the series ''[[Person of Interest (TV series)|Person Of Interest]]'', aconitine is shown in a syringe stuck to the character Shaw ([[Sarah Shahi]]) nearly being injected and causing her death, until she is rescued by Reese ([[Jim Caviezel]]).

In a 2017 episode of ''[[The Doctor Blake Mysteries]]'', fight manager Gus Jansons ([[Steve Adams (actor)|Steve Adams]]) murdered his boxer, Mickey Ellis (Trey Coward), during a match by applying aconitine he had put in petroleum jelly and applying it to a cut over the boxer’s eye. He feared being [[blackmail]]ed over a murder he helped cover up. He had made the poison from [[Aconitum|wolfsbane]] he had seen in a local garden.<ref>December Media Pty. “A Lethal Combination.” The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Season 5, Episode 1. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 17 September 2017.</ref> 

Aconitine poisoning is used by Villanelle to kill the Ukrainian gangster, Rinat Yevtukh in ''Killing Eve: No Tomorrow'' by [[Luke Jennings]] (2018).