water’) and stomach ache. A gua blanca reters probably 
to gonorrhea (Seijas, pers. comm.). Only in one case 
does he mention the identity of the cultivar—‘Munchira’. 
The following experience may be due to use of D. can- 
dida ‘Culebra’: 
The first time I drank six leaves at night. I got drunk. I saw woods 
full of trees, people from somewhere else, animals, stumps, pastures 
full of all kinds of snakes that came up the slopes of the pasture 
all in green. ‘They coiled to bite me. As the intoxication took 
greater hold of me, the house started to revolve against the world, 
and the same with the things in the house, ete. But the snakes 
stretched for the kill! 
Such horrible hallucinations may be commonplace. 
The Sibundoy appear to have an instinctive fear of snakes, 
despite the supposed absence of poisonous ones in the 
Valley. One medicine-man who had never taken ‘Cule- 
bra’ thought that if he did he would see ‘‘ugly things, 
snakes’. 
Juajibioy (ibid.) gives another example which was 
surely entertaining for observers: 
I took . . . only six leaves. I got drunk after an hour [and?] my 
vision went dim. During the day I saw unknown people duplicated 
—that is, one person in twomen. I felt crazy. I started running, 
then took off my clothes, and ran around naked in the garden, and 
showered myself with the piles of dirty weeds left by the hired 
men who were working at that moment. I also insulted them freely. 
And I went about kissing several tree trunks thinking they were 
my fiancée. Later I took to writing letters. I went out to the pasture 
with a rope to catch a horse to ride, but it turned out to be a dog. 
Despite these reports, I did not succeed in locating 
any native of the Valley who had employed D. candida 
‘Culebra’ for its psychotropic action. One prominent 
medicine-man has in his garden eight plants of this clone, 
perhaps one quarter of all the plants extant in the Val- 
ley. While he regularly takes the psychotropic Banis- 
teriopsis (6) and has tried several of the Daturas, he has 
not taken ‘Culebra’ and knows of no one who has done 
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