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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-12-04 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #3257 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3257 ⌋

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03. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey Season 6]



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04. [SPOILERS for Mockingjay Part 2]



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05. [SPOILERS for Undertale]



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[King Lear]


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[Tales From the Borderlands]


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Re: Weekend Plans

(Anonymous) 2015-12-05 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm extremely skeptical of it because while Linnda Caporael, the first person to propose it, pretty much moved on after she published the original paper in 1976, Mary Matossian took it up in a book called Molds, Epidemics, and History whose argument was basically Everything Is Due To Ergot.

The European witch craze? Ergot.

The Black Death? Ergot. (Well, specifically the high mortality from the Black Death.)

The Great Awakening (a religious revival in the American colonies in the mid-1700s)? Ergot.

The more she harps on it, the more I doubt. I mean, when a couple of teenage girls in Boston became "afflicted" (one of them after pissing off Sarah Good), Cotton Mather took them into his household to observe them. Their symptoms continued for months, and I doubt they would have been eating bread made from ergotized rye in Mather's house.