The Salem Witch Trials - Is There Something With Ergot?

A woman named linda jon rayll put forth a theory that the salem witch trials were kicked off by a round of urgot poisoning. Even though they used it medicinally,. midwives used it to help speed up labor, until they decided in the nineteenth century, that's pretty dangerous actually. The hoffman was working with urgota, which grows on rye. And am did a lot of poisoning over the ears, notably in the middle aes.