vie 
72. 
73. 
74. 
75. 
Our most important source for the use of the Sacred Mushrooms is the great 
Franciscan ethnographer Saha gun. The first four citations survive in Spanish and in 
Nahuatl, the latter presumably being the very words of Saha guin’s informant. R.G.W. 
SERNA, JACINTO DE LA. Manual de Ministros de Indios para el Conocimiento 
de sus Idolatrias y Extirpacién de Ellas. Published in Mexico City, 1892. 
See Chap IV, Sec 3. Also included in Anales del Museo Nacional de México, 
Vol VI, Mexico City, 1900. 
Like Motolinia, this author draws the analogy between the Christian Eucharist 
and the eating of the mushrooms; he suggests that the Indians regard the flesh of the 
mushrooms as divine, or as he considers it diabolic. r.G.w. 
TEZOZOMOC, FERNANDO DE ALVARADO. Crénica Mexicana. Mexico City, 
1958. See Chap 87. 
Briefly Tezozdmoc tells of the same episode as Diego Duran. See Entry 55. R.G.W. 
Tuevet, ANpRE. “Histoyre du Mechique.” (Before 1574) Ms. (Rendered 
lost work by Andrés de Olmos, Antiqiiedades Mexicanas, c. 1543.) Edited 
by Ed. de Jonghe. J Soc Amér de Paris, n. s., Vol. IL, 1905, p 18. 
This historian recounts an episode dating from the middle of the rsth century, 
long before the Conquest, in which the Sacred Mushrooms were eaten in Otom{ 
country in a religious context. R.G.W. 
Trial before the Holy Office of Inquisition, in the case of Mixcoatl and 
Papalotl. (1537) Ms. Published in Publicaciones del Archivo General de la 
Nacisn, Procesos de Indios, Idélatras, y Hechiceros. Mexico City, 1912. 
Vol III, pp 55 et seq. 
In this trial the analogy between the Christian Eucharist and the mushroom 
agape is strikingly brought out, as in Motolinfa and de la Serna. r.G.W. 
YANHUITLAN, CODICE DE. (1544) Edited by Wigberto Jiménez Moreno and 
Salvador Mateos Higuera. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e 
Historia, 1940. See Appendix, p 38. 
This source places the Sacred Mushrooms in Mixtec country. R.G.W. 
b. Later References 
76. 
77: 
78. 
Bancrort, Husert Howe. The Native Races. Vol II, 1874-1876. See p 360. 
Bourke, JOHN Grecory. Scatologic Rites of all Nations. 1891. See pp 89-91. 
Carrns, HuntTINGTON. “A divine intoxicant.” Atlantic Monthly. Vol 144, 
No 5. Nov 1929, pp 638-645. 
In this article the Safford thesis, denying the existence of hallucinogenic mush- 
rooms in Mexico, received its final expression. R.G.W. 
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