(unpublished thesis, 1957) dealing only with ‘Culebra’, 
and of Pedro Juajibioy (1960, MS.). Yepes interviewed 
Inga-speaking medicine-men travelling through Popayan 
to the north (88). 
Because of the possibility that the Sibundoy learned 
the use of some of the Datura cultivars from the nearby 
Inga-speaking peoples of Santiago, Col6n and San An- 
drés, it is well to include here the following information 
collected from some of their medicine-men (88): 
Borracheras. (Daturas). They are characterized as ‘calientes (1) 
equal to fire.” They distinguish more toxic and less toxic species, 
and give preference to the latter for divinatory purposes. When 
they take them, they have an assistant accompany them because 
they produce furious intoxication beyond certain dosages. 
Borrachera. ‘Lengua de Tigre or Tinye’ (2). In small quantity, it 
gives strength. Beginning by cooking three pairs of leaves or one 
flower, one progresses to larger dosages with time, and in this form 
it serves to make divination, diagnosis and witchcraft | maleficio]. 
Biangadn borrachera. During the wane of the moon, 2 pairs of leaves 
are given to the dogs so that they will go out as hunters (3). 
Danta borrachera. It is given to hunting dogs so that they may 
follow easily the trail of any animal (3). 
(1) Calientes (‘hot’ plur.), medicines which ‘“‘cure the diseases... 
produced by cold.’’ (38). 
(2) Identity unknown, but apparently referable to D. candida Saff. 
(3) Apparently D. candida ‘Biangan’. 
The Sibundoy [Inga-speaking native of the Valley of Sibundoy, 
not a Sibundoy | knows intoxication with borrachero by the dryness 
of the throat and the dilatation of the pupil (38). 
Schultes, who investigated the plants among the Si- 
bundoy in 1942, 1946 and 19538, summarized his findings 
on the psychotropic aspects of culebra borrachera in these 
words (29): 
This intoxication, resorted to by the witch-doctors only for very 
important or difficult cases of divination, prophecy or therapy, usu- 
ally lasts for two full days and sometimes may persist for four — 
with a long period of complete lack of consciousness. Missionaries 
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