Claviceps purpurea

THESIS (contested) Linnda Caporael (Science, 1976) proposed that ergot, the fungus Claviceps purpurea on rye, caused the "afflicted" girls' convulsive symptoms. LITSpanos and Gottlieb (Science, 1976) replied that the symptoms, their social pattern and their abrupt end don't fit convulsive ergotism. Most historians do not accept ergot as the cause. MODELA toy field: a wet, cool spring raises infection of the rye heads; tap to change the year's weather. Infection can be high in many years without any trials. That is the point: a mechanism is not a cause.

MNEMONIC "Rye can rot without a witch."

wetness

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