Tag: stramonium
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On extatic intoxication in religion
Chemical means, i. e., drugs, are employed almost exclusively by uncivilized peoples in order to produce intoxication during religious ceremonies. Brinton tells us that “in every savage tribe we find a knowledge of narcotic plants which were employed to induce strange and vivid hallucinationsor dreams …. The negroes of the Niger had their ‘fetish water‘, […]