Note 17 — APPENDIX 4: “PLANT WORSHIP” IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

Note the parallel uses of datura in South America found among the Inca, Matacuna, Chancay, Sipibo, Cocoma, Omagua, Jivaro, Canelo, Quijo, Zaparo, Guanes (Guanuco?), Chibcha and in Darien (after Gayton). The “wysoccan” used by the Pamunky (Beverly, History of Virginia, 2:24) is said to be a datura (Safford, Daturas, 557-58); the sporadic use as a medicament in Jamaica (Beckwith, Notes on Jamaica, 9, note 5, 28) may not be aboriginal.