1606 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth, What we now call a toad-stool was anciently called a paddock-stool.
1897 , William Thomas Fernie , Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure , The toad was popularly thought to impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings.
1911 , Joseph Campbell , Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-book on Tramp in Donegal, I asked an old woman in the fields this morning, pointing to a cluster of what we in the north-east corner call paddock-stools, and sometimes fairy-stools.
2010 , R. M. Ballantyne , The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean , Sometimes, when Jack happened to be in a humorous frame, he would seat himself at the bottom of the sea on one of the brain-corals, as if he were seated on a large paddock-stool, and then make faces at me, in order, if possible, to make me laugh under water.
