Board Thread:Q & A/@comment-4097293-20150226082755/@comment-26232195-20150406130426

@Lurkenfrau

Ok, great catch! Never would have thought to research ferula tingitana (FT) but, you're absolutely right, when the writers go to that much trouble to highlight something it almost certainly has signficance.

As far as Juliette's pregnancy being transferred to Adalind, while that would help with the timing of Adalind's pregnancy, not quite sure I'm ready to go there but, I'll suspend judgement for now. Seems more likely that there is a more mundane explanation like: Adalind didn't have any FT when she was preparing her potion and was either too lazy to go out and get some or too smart to go to Rosalee asking for some and decided to just take her chances. Or, she just skipped over that part of the spell, which would be consistent with her halfast approach to things. She didn't realize she was pregnant because she was in denial and writing off her weight gain to not being able to drop the weight from her previous pregnancy.

But anyway, so maybe the entwining spell jumpstarts the fertility of the person using it due to the presence of the second genetic identity, hence the need for the abortifacient. So, by symmetry, if Adalind got pregnant with a child carrying Juliette's DNA, then perhaps Juliette would have gotten pregnant with a child carrying Adalind's DNA. Juliette's abortion wasn't quite complete however, and that's when Adalind's epigenetic Hexenbiest inducing factor(s) were transferred to her. (Just thinking out loud in the terms of my "theory.")

Of course, the overriding question is, why did Elizabeth reduce the amount of FT? Was it a simple dosage miscalculation or did she have an ulterior motive in mind? Inquiring minds want to know!!