I always thought that it was about ergot-infected rye. In the middle ages sometimes whole towns' stores of rye got infected with a fungus which caused animals and people to go crazy. It was called St Anthony's Fire, and made them convulse and hallucinate.
I always thought that it was about ergot-infected rye. In the middle ages sometimes whole towns' stores of rye got infected with a fungus which caused animals and people to go crazy. It was called St Anthony's Fire, and made them convulse and hallucinate.