I’m sure you know that but the fact ergot is pointed as the source of various weird goings on in history is highly unlikely - it’s almost certainly a myth. It doesn’t work in terms of dosage. Mind you I’m still personally convinced that whatever they did at the height of the Eleusinian Mysteries (which your article mentions) involved a strong psychedelic - it just wasn’t ergot.
Still the main prior, unsurprisingly.
I’m sure you know that but the fact ergot is pointed as the source of various weird goings on in history is highly unlikely - it’s almost certainly a myth. It doesn’t work in terms of dosage. Mind you I’m still personally convinced that whatever they did at the height of the Eleusinian Mysteries (which your article mentions) involved a strong psychedelic - it just wasn’t ergot.
If I was a tripping monk being interrogated, I would blame ergot “getting into the bread” too!
“I’m really sorry Cardinal, but we just weren’t careful with the Rye this year…”
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