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A witch cake is composed of rye meal mixed with...urinefrom the afflicted children. It is then fed to a ....dog The person is considered bewitched if the....dog displays similar symptoms as the afflicted.
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This fungi species was the original source from which LSD was first isolated. It is believed that symptoms of gangrenous ERG......... (the disease) have been recorded since the middle ages and possibly even as far back as ancient Greece.

Concentrate on this one, you were brought up on the farm, you must have seen it plenty times, maybe you even played with it, my grandma when was young pick it up and sold it to pharmacies before the WWII. It grows on a plant (it is a parasite) that is often or maybe was often used as source for flour.

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This fungi species was the original source from which LSD was first isolated. It is believed that symptoms of gangrenous ERG......... (the disease) have been recorded since the middle ages and possibly even as far back as ancient Greece.

Concentrate on this one, you were brought up on the farm, you must have seen it plenty times, maybe you even played with it, my grandma when was young pick it up and sold it to pharmacies before the WWII. It grows on a plant (it is a parasite) that is often or maybe was often used as source for flour.

Oh bloody hell, I actually have heard of this. The fungus, I believe, grows on wheat crops. In fact, hallucinations from that fungus are one of the theories behind the Salem witch-hunts in the (I believe) 1600's in America. But I don't remember the name. I know what you're asking for, though.

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quorthon said:

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This ERGOT OF RYE species was the original source from which LSD was first isolated. It is believed that symptoms of gangrenous ERGOTISM(the disease) have been recorded since the middle ages and possibly even as far back as ancient Greece.

Ergot of Rye causes gangrenous disease called ergotism. And as you see from the name it grows on rye, but you are also right other species from that fungi family do parasite on other corn plants like wheat

Concentrate on this one, you were brought up on the farm, you must have seen it plenty times, maybe you even played with it, my grandma when was young pick it up and sold it to pharmacies before the WWII. It grows on a plant (it is a parasite) that is often or maybe was often used as source for flour.

Oh bloody hell, I actually have heard of this. The fungus, I believe, grows on wheat crops. In fact, hallucinations from that fungus are one of the theories behind the Salem witch-hunts in the (I believe) 1600's in America. But I don't remember the name. I know what you're asking for, though.

Ergot of Rye causes gangrenous disease called ergotism. And as you see from the name it grows on rye, but you are also right other species from that fungi family do parasite on other corn plants like wheat.

One more mystery busted.