Note 123 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

To be sure, diagnosis of illness by clairvoyance, etc., is resorted to, but this is to be expected when witchcraft is the main cause of sickness. (Cf. the combination of doctoring and divination with cohoba snuff in Haiti. Safford, Narcotic Plants, 393.) Obsessive elements of interest to psychiatry are found both in the witchcraft fear and in the methods chosen to cure the ill.