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The Ergot's Curse

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Science

 

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Judith H

 

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February 3, 2011

 

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Ergotism is described as "long-term ergot poisoning?resulting from eating contaminated rye bread" (Caporael). Through various tests and observations, Linnda Caporael, who connected the ergotism theory with witchcraft in Salem, concluded that children, mostly girls, and females or pregnant women were "most likely to be affected by the condition...
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James Carr, when questioned during Mary Bradbury's trial, claimed that after visiting Mary Bradbury in her home, he began experiencing strange feelings and sensations "as if (every) liveing creature did run about every part of my [his] body redy to tare me [him] to peaces [sic]" (Roots). Marc Aronson researched those feelings and sensations and concluded that "ergot can have the effects of a drug that drives people temporarily mad, giving them visions, and tormenting their bodies" (216)...
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