Note 12 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM
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Sahagún, Historia general, 3:241; Histoire générale, 737. Lumholtz (Unknown Mexico, 2:354) adds marihuana to the list of plants which protect against witchcraft injury: the doctor comes on a Tuesday, Thursday or Friday, reverses the ill person’s sandals, shirt and drawers, recites the credo backwards to summon the owl, and burns a heap of marihuana and old rags in the house. Many persons also carry marihuana in their girdles as a protection against sorcery. The Cocopa and Yuma uses of an unidentified plant (awimimedje) to offset fatigue and give luck suggests peyote (Gifford, Cocopa, 268).