Note 6 — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTISM

Can this be a reflex of an older pattern? Spier (The Sun Dance, 473) lists as a part of the Sun Dance of the Arapaho, Kiowa and Southern Cheyenne a prepared drink and the induction of vomiting. Kozad (Kiowa) believed peyote had a good effect whether vomited or not—the virtue being in the quantity eaten. Cf. the emetic rites in connection with the “black drink.”