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Salem Witches Theory
Salem Witches Theory
Explains why the women in Salem may have acted like witches. picked by mandolinorange 1 year ago
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 DrNothin...
1 year ago
There's a similar theory about ergot from rotting bread causing the peasants in France to revolt in the late 1700's...
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 rambler
1 year ago
Today historians are speculating that some other bizarre events of the past may be due to ergot poisoning. For instance, an affliction known as "dancing mania" [...] may have been caused by the troublesome fungus. This phenomenon caused groups of people to dance through the streets of cities– often speaking nonsense and/or foaming at the mouth– until they finally collapsed from exhaustion. Sufferers often described wild visions, and continued to writhe after falling to the ground.
Sounds like this poisoning could have contributed to crowd behaviour here in Accra after Ghana was knocked out of the football World Cup last year.
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 eljay
1 year ago
If those people had been real witches all their accusers would have been turned into toads. I have always maintained it was mental illness, epilepsy or something to that affect, which in that time they wouldn't know about such things. But this thing about the rye is really interesting.
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 sykeo56
1 year ago
They acted like witches by weighing less than a duck. It's quite simple really.
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 DrNothin...
1 year ago
« sykeo56 : They acted like witches by weighing less than a duck. It's quite simple really.
LOL... Yes, but very small stones don't sink in water either, so mayer they were pebbles and NOT witches...?!
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 pocksuck...
1 year ago
« DrNothing : There's a similar theory about ergot from rotting bread causing the peasants in France to revolt in the late 1700's...
And also that as rye bread was the foodstuff most commonly eaten on pilgrimages across Europe that the various visions at Lourdes, etc, were a little chemically enhanced.
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