The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom From: The Australian Journal of Anthropology | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright Anthropology Society of New South Wales 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

William Scott Shelley. The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom. Notre Dame, Indiana: Cross Cultural Publications Inc., Note Dame, 1995. 282pp., bibliog., index. US$42.95 (Hc.), ISBN 0-940121-21-2.

Jon Marshall

Anthropology, University of Sydney

This is the most eccentric book I have encountered in a long time. It is vaguely reminiscent of the Golden Bough or the White Goddess, but without the theoretical coherence of Frazer or the visionary coherence of Graves. So great is the appearance of scholarship and confusion, the sense of things being hinted rather than stated, that I ...

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