Like, is it just an allegory for diesease and pestilince that tends to grow in swampy, damp, dark places or is there actually a type of body of liquid that would be poisonous to tread through and not by injesting or infecting through an open wound? 🤔
I know that some algal blooms can occur in swamps and some can produce cyanotoxins that take effect just from skin contact. If those two features can happen at the same time, I suppose that gets us there? But I have no idea if it can