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Re: "LSD Cured My Headache" (London Independent)
Reply #25 - Jan 7^th, 2009 at 1:00am

Pinkfloyd wrote on Jan 7^th, 2009 at 12:06am:

P.P.S. it is now believed by many that it was the "witches" that had eaten ergot-ridden bread which caused hallucinations and visions. Not the townspeople that hung them. Had the townspeople eaten the bread, the last thing they would have wanted to do would be hang someone. The witches should have broken bread with the town elders. Halloween would be a lot different these days.

I'll have to disagree with this statement based entirely on sheer volume of the amount of ergot tainted grain it would take to bake a singe loaf of bread. The villagers of the period all harvested their grains frome fields within the same vascinity. Whatever weather conditions occured to have this happen to the grain supply would have happened to all grain. Not just those of certain households.

The amount of ergot that would be found in say...3-4 shafts of sleepy grass isn't a whole lot to be sure. But it takes a hell of alot more than 4 shafts of wheat or rye to make a loaf of bread. Everyone would have been tripping to some level dependant on the amount of bread consumed.

There is more to the history of the times as well that would factor in, but It's too late to get into the discussion right now. I'm off to bed.

"The goal of life living in agreement with Nature." ~Zeno

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UnderTheRadar CH.com Old Timer Offline Literally Posts: 383 Texas Gender:	Re: "LSD Cured My Headache" (London Independent) Reply #26 - Jan 7^th, 2009 at 9:52pm oh, gosh-darnit- I read a fantastic article a couple of years ago about a group of scientists who figured out exactly how the whole ergot-rye-bread-witches-thing happened...lots of scientific evidence...can't remember now, but I was completely convinced. Maybe I can find it online.
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