Article ID: CBB001320326

Ergotism in Norway. Part 2: The Symptoms and Their Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century Onwards (2013)

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Ergotism, the disease caused by consuming Claviceps purpurea, a highly poisonous, grain-infecting fungus, occurred at various places scattered throughout Norway during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By focusing on these cases we chart the changing interpretations of the peculiar disease, frequently understood within a religious context or considered as a supernatural (e.g. ghostly) experience. However, there was a growing awareness of the disease ergotism, and from the late eighteenth century onwards it was often correctly interpreted as being due to a fungus consumed via bread or porridge. Also, nineteenth-century fairy-tales and regional legends reveal that people were increasingly aware and fearful of the effects of consuming infected grain.

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Authors & Contributors
Revuelta, José I. Pérez
Moreno, José M. Villagrán
Faschi, Viviana
Daker, Mauricio V.
Nielsen, May-Brith Ohman
Schatz, Stephanie L.
Concepts
Psychology
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychopathology
Psychiatry
Parapsychology; psychic phenomena
Science and religion
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Early modern
Places
France
Europe
Great Britain
England
Americas
Scotland
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