Note 3 — APPENDIX 4: “PLANT WORSHIP” IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:373. In this region narcotics in general are much employed in connection with war, and the magical “witching” of the enemy—whose power is not merely physical but magically malevolent too. “Mescal beans” were part of the war-bundle in some southern Plains tribes, and both peyote and datura were used clairvoyantly and prophetically in war connections. The attitude that the enemy is a witch, Dr. Spier informs me, is widespread among both the Yumans and Athapascans of the Southwest. Cf. also peyote and captured scalps (e.g., Maricopa) talking, and being danger-ridden.