This can cause ergo to build up, and that increases the risk of ergot poisoning.

Ergot poisoning has additional symptoms that were not reported by those claiming affliction.

The grass can cause ergot poisoning if eaten when infested with the fungus.

Ergot poisoning is a proposed explanation of bewitchment.

It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot poisoning and Saint Anthony's Fire.

Until recent times, epidemic-like outbreaks of ergot poisoning have been recorded in most European countries including certain areas of Russia.

Ergot poisoning can progress to gangrene, vision problems, confusion, spasms, convulsions, unconsciousness, and death.

There is evidence of ergot poisoning serving a ritual purpose in the ritual killing of certain bog bodies.

'Ergot poisoning.

One of the most prominent theories is that victims suffered from ergot poisoning, which was known as St Anthony's Fire in the Middle Ages.

A severe outbreak of ergot poisoning occurred, however, in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951, resulting in five deaths.

Consumption of rye and related cereals contaminated with the fungus Claviceps purpurea causes ergot poisoning and ergotism in humans and other mammals.

There are several other possible culprits for the werewolf legends, including ergot poisoning, which can cause hallucinations, and rabies, which can drive infected animals to attack human beings.

In 1129, when the city was suffering from an epidemic of ergot poisoning, this "burning sickness" was stayed after St Genevieve's relics were carried in a public procession.

In the lower left corner, the being with webbed feet and a distended belly seems to personify the disease caused by ergot poisoning, resulting in swelling and ulcerous growths.

The epidemic was known as Saint Anthony's fire, or ignis sacer, and some historical events, such as the Great Fear in France during the Revolution have been linked to ergot poisoning.

Spanos and Gottlieb also state that ergot poisoning has additional symptoms not associated with the events in Salem and that the proportion of children afflicted were less than in a typical ergotism epidemic.

In 1982 historian Mary Matossian raised Caporael's theory in an article in American Scientist in which she argued that symptoms of "bewitchment" resemble the ones exhibited in those afflicted with ergot poisoning.

St. Anthony was the focus of a Roman Catholic Hospital Order which flourished from the 13th to 18th centuries and was responsible for treating the effects of ergot poisoning or St. Anthony's Fire.

Ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs.

In an attempt to diagnose the symptoms claimed to have been experienced by the girls, scholars have attributed the torments to a variety of causes, giving such explanations as include fraud, ergot poisoning, hysteria, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

While most academic sources accept ergot poisoning, poisoning by mercury, mycotoxins, or nitrogen trichloride, as the cause of the Pont-Saint-Esprit epidemic, others like paranormal author John Grant Fuller in The Day of Saint Anthony's Fire have reached conclusions similar to Albarelli's.