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Poisons of the Past

Molds, Epidemics, and History

by Mary Kilbourne Matossian

A historian's argument that mould toxins in grain, especially ergot in rye, influenced population trends and episodes of collective disturbance in early modern Europe and America. Matossian applies the theory to witch-hunts, the Salem crisis and the French Great Fear of 1789; most historians of witchcraft have not accepted its conclusions.

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