Ergot

spread to twenty-four other colonies. Myth number four, superstition was the driving force. The idea of Witches and Witchcraft came directly from the Bible. Myth number five, Ergot poisoning was to blame for the Witch trials. In fact, a supply of contaminated rye introduced Salem to Ergot poisoning. As the main result of Ergot poisoning, should anyone not no of the symptoms, are violent convulsions and terrible…

is found in ergot fungus. It is one of the most powerful mood changing chemicals (Barter 42). LSD has a long history, and many names. An LSD high has many characteristics, and there are several physical and mental effects of using LSD. LSD is a hallucinogen, a drug that causes a person to hallucinate (“LSD”). It was first made by Albert Hofmann in 1938, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical in Basel, Switzerland (Barter 39). It is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot…

In theory number one, it speaks about a type of fungus called ergot which grew in Salem. In western Salem grain was their staple crop. When eating the ergot contaminated food it would have side effects to the Salem villagers. The victims would have prickling sensations all over their body and muscle spasms. The fungus would grow in swampy meadows. Puritans would believe that the people who ate the fungus and had side effects from it were witches. However one year there was a dry season and…

But in the roots of the trials, could be a logical reason why the accused presented symptoms of “possession”, ergot. “Ergot is a fungus that infects rye, a grain more commonly used in past centuries to bake bread than it is today. One of the byproducts present in ergot-infected grain is ergotamine, which is related to LSD. Toxicologists have known for years that eating bread baked with ergot-contaminated rye can trigger convulsions, delusions, creepy-crawly sensations of the skin, vomiting,and…

Witchcraft is a prominent problem in The Crucible. The entire play centers on this one problematic event that has everyone in the town of Salem panic-stricken and accused of being a witch. While the play had instances of witchcraft defined, most of the play just has the characters accusing each other blindly because they themselves do not want to face justice alone. Witchcraft in actuality is a religion that is centered on nature. They cannot perform spells, but they perform rituals that summon…

cruelty of the Salem Witch Trails had begun. At this time, people began to have hallucinations, delusions, they begun vomit, and have muscle spasms which was all caused by the fungus ergot. According to Blumberg, the fungus was found in rye, wheat and in other cereal. The people were not aware of the fungus ergot. They believed that the illness was all caused by witchcraft. This only lead to false accusations, of those who were believed to be a witch. These types of accusations harmed many…

At the tail end of the witch craze in Europe, comes the Salem Witch Trials. The European witch craze lasted from the fourteenth century to mid-seventeenth century. During this time period, between “200,000 and 500,000 witches” were executed most of these people were women . The vast majority of these trials took place in a sixty-year time period between 1570 and 1630. During this time period “four out of five victims were women”. Most of these women were homeless, widowed, never…

September 22, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts experienced a witch hysteria. Over the 15 week period, 19 men and women were hanged for witchcraft, and more than 100 accused people were jailed. Although some believed the cause for hysteria was a factor such as ergot poisoning, the cause was actually class division. Foremost, class division played major a role in the Salem area. The sharpest distinction was between the port’s residents living in the Salem Town area and the farmers living in the…

From its foundation found in ergot alkaloids found in a fungus that grows on rye, the purpose behind its discovery was to aid in contracting the uterus after child birth and treating migraine headaches. As it was synthesized into LSD in 1938, there was little to no understanding of its hallucinating side effects. (Inaba & Cohen, 1997) Recorded throughout history, there have been numerous accounts of ergot poisoning due to rye consumption, resulting in hallucinations…

For ergot to turn into LSD it has to be combined at a laboratory with multiple different chemicals such as, phosphoryl chloride, and peptide coupling reagents. The reason why it is considered a schedule I drug is not because it is addictive, as many people think…