Michael Pollan Quote
Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to cast spells -- in our vocabulary, psychoactive plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skin of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based flying ointment that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the broomstick by which these women were said to travel. (119)
Michael Pollan
Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to cast spells -- in our vocabulary, psychoactive plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skin of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based flying ointment that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the broomstick by which these women were said to travel. (119)