{"id":845,"date":"2024-08-19T04:33:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:27:00","slug":"the-myth-of-witches-hallucinogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/the-myth-of-witches-hallucinogens\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of witches&#8217; hallucinogens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is commonly believed that Early Modern women accused of being witches, made ointments from local plants containing powerful psychoactive agents, which caused hallucinations of flight and other supernatural events. These videos examine the history of the hallucinogenic flying ointment narrative, and present evidence discrediting the myth of witches&#8217; hallucinogens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3jtTWBJUGJI\" title=\"\">The myth of witches&#8217; hallucinogens #1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The myth of witches&#039; hallucinogens #1\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3jtTWBJUGJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed, Shokhan Rasool. \u201cWitches Which Never Flew: Native Witchcraft and the Cunning Woman on the Stage.\u201d <em>International Journal of Literature and Arts<\/em> 2.5 (2014): 130. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11648\/j.ijla.20140205.11\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11648\/j.ijla.20140205.11<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bever, Edward. \u201c\u2018Postmodernist, Deconstruct Thyself\u2019: A Response to Michael Ostling\u2019s \u201cBabyfat and Belladonna: Witches\u2019 Ointment and the Contestation of Reality\u201d.\u201d <em>Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft<\/em> 11.2 (2016): 249\u201363. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mrw.2016.0017\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mrw.2016.0017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>de Bl\u00e9court, Willem. \u201cThe Flying Witch: Its Resonance in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands.\u201d <em>Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft<\/em> 11.1 (2016). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mrw.2016.0010\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mrw.2016.0010<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/621359\">https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/621359<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bott, Rachel. \u201cTo Bl\u00e5kulla They Flew: An Analysis of the Child\u2019s Sabbath Narrative during the Swedish Witch Hunts.\u201d Honors, University of Texas, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briggs, Robin. \u201c\u2018By the Strength of Fancie\u2019: Witchcraft and the Early Modern Imagination.\u201d <em>Folklore<\/em> 115.3 (2004): 259\u201372.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carruthers, David M.J. \u201cLines of Flight of the Deadly Nightshade: An Enquiry into the Properties of the Magical Plant, Its Literature and History.\u201d <em>Mosaic<\/em> 48.2 (2015): 119\u201332. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mos.2015.0025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/mos.2015.0025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clifton, Chas S. \u201cIf Witches No Longer Fly: Today\u2019s Pagans and the Solanaceous Plants.\u201d <em>POME<\/em> 13.10 (2012): 17\u201323. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1558\/pome.v13i10.17\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1558\/pome.v13i10.17<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cWitches Still Fly: Or Do They? 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