
Episode 529: Mass Hysteria Through Time
Last Podcast On The Left
00:00
The Perversion of Hallucinogens
It's been wrongly theorized that every single one of these dancing plagues were a result of ergot poisoning. It doesn't wash because when you consider that people would dance for weeks or months on end without showing any other sign of ergot perversion, it's just puking or shitting yourself into a coma. People did exhibit a rational psychedelic sounding behavior during these prolonged transits in the well documented 1347 case in the low countries. The afflicted yelled out the names of devils. And so you're basically taking like we say we transmute our pop culture ideas to our visions of aliens and shit.
Transcript
Play full episode