Ergot: The fungus that may have started the Salem witch trials and gave us LSD 🌾🔮
Claviceps purpurea grows on rye and produces alkaloids that cause hallucinations, convulsions, and “dancing” epidemics in the Middle Ages.
Historians believe it played a role in the Salem hysteria.
Decades later, Albert Hofmann isolated the same compound — and accidentally discovered LSD.
The fungus that changed history.
What’s your take on fungi shaping human events?
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