Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe

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Chapter 7

XIII. A USE OF POISONOUS FUNGI QUITE PROBABLY EXISTED AMONG

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THE MEXICANS 89 Mushrooms and toadstools worshipped by American Indians.—A former use of fungus indicated in the myths of Ceylon, and in the laws of the Brahmins.