Turn you into a toad

Does anyone know where the turning people into toad thing comes from?

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Did I just read that correctly?

You probably did

D'oh! (Best Homer Simpson voice)

I mean the myth that witches turn people into toads

I don't believe she's asking if we turn people into toads, the answer to that is fairly self explanatory, merely where the myth originates. That's not a stupid question at all and not particularly fluffy.

To the best of my knowledge the first such example of this is when Leto asked the Lycian peasants to drink from their pond and was refused quite rudely, thus she transformed them into frogs out of anger. I'm personally not sure how it managed to become associated with witchcraft specifically but from there it's worked its way into various sayings and works of fiction leaving it as one of the many false stereotypes of witchcraft.

Thank you for the answer. It's all I wanted :) x

Thar's so not possible, just a myth:)

he never asked how to do it, just where it came from

That is just an old wives tale