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The peyote cult

Note 36 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

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Spanish friars came in after 1722, but Huichol peyotism is almost wholly free of Christian beliefs (Handbook of the American Indians, 1:576-77). Even the “baptism” rite is probably native.

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