The peyote cult

Transcriber’s Note: The author’s citations of works published in languages other than English are sometimes inaccurately spelt. In addition, he uses a mixture of standard and no...

Bennett and Zingg[16] mention the Tarahumari belief that the singing one hears as the bakánawa moves about in the night near the sleeper may be made clearer by chewing a bit of...

[9] The best histological account is in Rouhier, _Monographie_, 34-42; the work of Dr. Helia Bravo, _Nota acerca de la Histología_, is more recent. Richard Schultes at Harvard h...

De la Serna[13] said that ololiuhqui and peyote were carried by persons “forsaken of God” as charms against all injuries, and Arlegui deplored the custom of parents to “hang lit...

One of the Tamaulipecan tribes would usually hold feasts for only those of its own community, or it would invite some of those that were neighbors and friends. They took place g...

We are just beginning our prayer meeting. We want you to be with us tonight and help us. We want no one to be sick at this meeting from eating peyote. I will pause again at midn...

[17] Hoebel, _Comanche Field Notes_; Voegelin, _Shawnee Field Notes_. The Iowa Red Bean medicine bundle was used for war, horse stealing, hunting and horse racing (Skinner, _Eth...

[75] The Lipan wash themselves with yucca or soapweed and perfume themselves with mint, and use the same kind of sage in meetings as they wear in their hats against lightning. T...

[126] Is this a culture-environmental problem?—for the same substance which was spectacularly aphrodisiac in Lame Deer, Montana, was stubbornly anaphrodisiac in Philadelphia. Un...

_Peyote Paraphernalia in General._ Typical Plains peyote paraphernalia includes minimally the leader’s satchel, gourd rattle, water drum, drum stick, staff, feathers, eagle wing...

It must not be thought, however, that the bold innovations begun by John Wilson and others have resulted in a complete chaos of individualism. It requires considerable prestige...

In the early days they just had a good time for one night. It was not used as a curing ceremony then.... At first they wanted to have good visions, that’s what they were after....

[52] Koshiway said he ate 100 once: “I was like a Ford, all broken down, connecting rods loose. The next day I was overhauled and hitting on all four, and went to work.” Belo Ko...

[134] The prophecies and predictions of C. W. (Kickapoo president of the Native American Church) on the basis of his visions have an old-time flavor, though colored by Christian...

The others in the tipi did not like me. Peyote told me this. I had been a man-catcher. That was the reason. The two persons that loved me prayed for me and I got well. I did not...

This ceremony was held in the spring when the sunflowers were in blossom on the prairie, for then nearly all the vegetable foods given by wakanda were ripe. The leader, who was...

has driven out of existence almost all the other societies and ancient customs of the tribe; almost all of the Iowa in Oklahoma are ardent peyote disciples, and only ... a few ....

[47] Wilson said that one Smith had been in Oklahoma from a group on the Yukon River in southern Alaska; they were said to have used it for fifteen years. Jenness (letter to Sch...

They had another kind of drunkenness ... which was with small fungi or mushrooms [hongos ó setas pequeñas] ... which are eaten raw, and, on account of being bitter, they drink a...

[14] The ilex “black drink” is Catawba (_Handbook of the American Indians_, 1:150a, 2:1000-1001); Alibamu (Forster, _Bossu_, 254, 261, 294, 354-55); Creek (Swanton, _Social Orga...

_Psychic state_: exceedingly variable, varying culturally, with the stages of intoxication, and in the individual himself at different times. Mexican visions sometimes have a fr...

[37] But not to all persons! The typical over-enthusiasm with which new materia medica are received is itself an interesting ethnographic commentary. Prentiss and Morgan (_Thera...

Peyote taught Wilson many variations in the ceremony as well. He used a crock instead of a kettle for the peyote drum. At one period in the development of the ritual only the fi...

The Bible as an additional piece of peyote paraphernalia probably stems from the Christianism of the Oto, who used it in their meetings, being mentioned also for the Iowa, Omaha...

Of particular interest, however, is the Negro Church of the First-born, formerly existing near Tulsa, Oklahoma.[12] The founder was John Jamison who was born in Lincoln Co., Okl...

Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde. _Articles_ (vol. 1:93-94, 1891; vol. 4:36-39, 1894; vol. 5:14, 59, 94, 1895; vol 7:94, 1897; vol. 8:110-11, 116, 127, 164, 1898; vol. 10:161, 190...

SPÄTH, E. _Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide._ I. _Anhalin und Mezcalin_ (Monatshefte für Chemie, vol. 40:129-52. Wien, 1920); II. _Die Konstitution des Pellotins, des Anhalonidins,...