Note 4 — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTISM
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Datura or Jimsonweed was also greatly feared; it killed or drove crazy anyone who touched it. Only shamans armed with the more powerful peyote dared uproot it. Bakánori was used by runners to rub on their legs or to carry in the girdle to counteract witchcraft in the ritual races; but if kept too long this plant also would drive a man crazy or kill him. See Bennett and Zingg, The Tarahumara, 136-38, 292, 338, 347; Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:359-60, 372-74; also Mooney, Tarumari-Guayachic.