Saturday, November 4, 2017

Shoshana Bean sings a medley of roles she will never get to play - on th...

the last a disease caused by eating bread or cereal made of rye that has been infected with the fungus ergot, which can elicit vomiting, choking, fits, hallucinations, and the sense of something crawling on one’s skin. (The hallucinogen LSD is a derivative of ergot.) Given the subsequent spread of the strange behaviour to other girls and young women in the community and the timing of its display, however, those physiological and psychological explanations are not very convincing. https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials

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