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One explanation for the 'bewitchment' symptoms in the Salem witch trials is poisoning by a rye fungus containing compounds similar to LSD. If a fungus in the bread could lie behind a town's mass hysteria, doesn't it make you ask how much of what we explain as 'evil' or 'madness' is actually biology?
— Salem and the ergot fungus hypothesis
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