(Robert Sepehr) Throughout the early modern period, the English term “witch” was not exclusively negative in meaning, and could also indicate practitioners of folk medicine, folk magic, and divination, often involving out-of-body experiences and traveling though the realms of a hidden of “other-world”.
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by Robert Sepehr, April 9th, 2018
During the time leading up to the witchcraft trials in Europe, the staple bread was made with rye, which would host a mold called “ergot”. ergot, in high doses, can be lethal, a fact that led to the rise in popularity of wheat bread, which is resistant to ergot mold. In smaller doses, ergot is a powerful hallucinogenic drug that is the central ingredient in the ointment that witches rubbed their broomsticks with.
You see, when eaten, there was the risk of death, but when absorbed through the thin tissues of the female genitals, the hallucinogenic effects were more pronounced with less ill-effects. The modern image of a witch riding a broomstick was inspired by the sight of a woman rubbing herself on the drug coated smooth stick of her broom.
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Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and independent anthropologist.
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https://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-brief-history-of-witches-robert-sepehr.html

Wow Justin..this is disgusting…wondering why you chose to include it. Glorifies the Inquisition and demonizes Jews and pagans. Please remove it.
Faith. I appreciate your perspective but your conclusions wrong here. The man simply produced a documentary of history, there was no opinion about jews or pagans. He did not demonize anyone. As a matter of fact, he inferred that altered states of consciousness through mysticism and alchemy were beneficial, despite being suppressed by the Church. It was informative and interesting, made by someone with sound journalistic integrity, this is the reason why we shared it.
Before you talk about Robert Sepehr’s “sound journalistic integrity” you may wish to read about him.
http://website.lineone.net/~brian_gillbanks/sepehr.htm
http://robertsepehr.weebly.com/
http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/review-of-species-with-amnesia-by-robert-sepehr
https://forbiddenarchaeology2016.weebly.com/blog-posts-reviewing-species-with-amnesia
http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/robert-sepehrs-species-with-amnesia-sneak-peek-plagiarism-report
This guy has been running scams on the internet since the 1990s. His latest is Robert Sepehr the anthropologist. I thought the book review by anthropologist Andy White along with the reviews by the students of his Forbidden Archeology class to be very eye opening on his racism and even support of Nazis!