Note 84 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Romans 11.16-18. No native with whom the writer is acquainted has to date noted the obvious Shakespearean reference to peyote, in the speech of Banquo as the three witches vanish incorporeally into thin air (Macbeth I, iii): “Were such things here as we do speak about, or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”