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The exact location where 19 innocent women met their end in Salem, Ma in 1692 , has been positively identified......
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Interesting. The College of Physicians in London tried controlling all aspects of medicine, including midwifery. The Pepperers & Grocers (which included apothecaries) filed a suit to gain a royal charter to dispense medications & practice medicine. They were successful in both England & the colonies. Sadly, many female midwives were not protected by law and many were accused of witchcraft. It wasn't as prevalent here in the VA colony, nevertheless a widow who inherited an apothecary from her deceased husband could not serve as an apothecary. She could own the business but could not manage it or dispense services personally.Child of the tides -
"A behavioral psychologist at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, noticed a link between the strange symptoms reported by Salem’s accusers, chiefly eight young women, and the hallucinogenic effects of drugs like LSD."
Ergotism
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The site is across the street from Walgreens
The persecution of witchcraft still goes on: one example
If the women don\'t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.Comment
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Yes, I'm not surprised. Few realize that folks were tripping, though mostly unknowingly, quite awhile ago.
"In the Middle Ages, outbreaks of ergotism caused by ergot alkaloids from Claviceps purpurea reached epidemic proportions, mutilating and killing thousands of people in Europe. Ergotism was also known as ignis sacer (sacred fire) or St Anthony's fire, because at the time it was thought that a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anthony would bring relief from the intense burning sensation experienced. The victims of ergotism were exposed to lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a hallucinogen, produced during the baking of bread made with ergot-contaminated wheat, as well as to other ergot toxins and hallucinogens, as well as belladonna alkaloids from mandragora apple, which was used to treat ergotism. While ergotism no longer has such important implications for public health, recent reports indicate that outbreaks of human mycotoxicoses are still possible. Some mycotoxicoses have disappeared owing to more rigorous hygiene measures. For example, citreoviridin-related malignant acute cardiac beriberi ("yellow rice disease" or shoshin-kakke disease in Japanese) has not been reported for several decades, following the exclusion of moldy rice from the markets. Citreoviridin is a metabolic product of Penicillium citreonigrum, which grows readily on rice during storage after harvest, especially in the colder regions of Japan. Another mycotoxicosis not seen for decades is alimentary toxic aleukia, common in the 1930s and 1940s in the USSR. This disease was caused by trichothecenes produced by Fusarium strains on unharvested grain."
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Of course, it wasn't always unknowing....
"In Medieval Italy, there are many reports of people purposefully infecting their grains with Ergot fungi and then mixing the results with an alcoholic beverage. This experience would have been close to what LSD feels like. And Psilocybin-based mushrooms were also being used and trafficked throughout the region and we even have a Venetian ship manifesto from the 1300s that records shrooms being brought from Crimea."
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See also: "Medical Explanations of Bewitchment" at the link below:
I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.Comment
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All explanations of strange behavior caused by hallucinagenic drugs from wild plants or fungi infecting eatable grains or from whatever cause there would have been aside, in Massachusetts and Connecticut during that time with almost total control of the Colonial government by the Puritan Church (notwithstanding some weak influences from the British Royal government), whose major rulers believed in witches and sorcery and where there were codified punishments for witchcraft with death sentences it would have been impossible for some people to have escaped being killed by the government in control at that time. You only have to read the writings of Increase and Cotton Mather and other strongly influential or ruling members of those colonies to get a sense of how strongly their religion controlled almost every aspect of the lives of the colonists at that time. It was only after migration from England and other areas of non-Puritans that the situation began to change. For all that is said about the Pilgrims and other Puritan types fleeing from England for religious freedom when they got to the New World they attempted to establish and for awhile did establish a theocracy while not as severe or as infused into the Government as the Spanish Inquisition was terrible nevertheless. In the southern colonies there was never anything so horrible. In Virginia at the same time, the colonists were only given economic fines ( pounds sterling or payments in pounds of tobacco) or punishments of community service for violations such as not attending church regularly or not making the required tithes. In Virginia, the Church of England was the mayor religious influence and control. The Church of England in the 1600s were more "liberal" than their Puritan counterparts in New England. One of the first colonies that brought real religious freedom to America was Pennsylvania that was established by a Quaker, William Penn. That, I think, speaks a lot for the Quaker philosophy.Comment
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Some Virginia colonists found even this region too restrictive and migrated south to the Carolinas where many officials turned a blind eye to the King's laws.Child of the tidesComment
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Bad women..Comment
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I bet they have a hard time keeping the paranormal investigators etc out of that place, now that the location is known.Josh (Ky/Tn collector)Comment
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