Mistletoe

=== Apotropaic: Mistletoe ===
Mistletoe has been used by humans for protection and good luck for a long time for reasons long forgotten.  In truth, mistletoe has an adverse allergic reaction for Lycanthropes specifically that humans themselves don’t.  Mistletoe oil will cause blistering of the skin, and fiery itching and rashes wherever it touches.  This affects lycanthropes regardless of shape, and can be quite the tell for an unsuspecting lycanthrope in human form.  
The scent of it is abhorrent to Lycanthropes, it smells like a mixture of rotting flesh and pine needles and cause cause wheezing and coughing.  Crushed and inhaled or ingested it can poison a lycanthrope, though the dosage to be fatal would require a significantly greater quantity than is feasible.
The oils are sometimes spread in places to ward off supernatural creatures, but they are only effective against one type, and more of an annoyance than deterrent.  That being said, a smart mystically aware human might use it as an identifier of Lycanthropes, because knowledge is a potent weapon.
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