> A women in Brazil raised butterflies (not sure which species) on
> Claviceps purporea (ergot, from which LSD is synthesised)
> She discovered that the butterfly vomit was
> psychoactive. She patented this new drug as Flutter (but not in
> Brazil - I'm not sure which country but somewhere in South
> America).

Right, that's the one tantalising item. Here is another report, with more
detailed information, supplied by my friend:

> The Humr tribe of Baggara Arabs, who live in south-western
> Kordofan in Sudan hunt giraffe. After killing a giraffe they make camp
> and prepare a drink called umm nyolokh from the liver and bone marrow
> of the giraffe. They say that this drink is the main reason for
> hunting the giraffe. The Humr are Mahdist and therefore strict
> abstainers. A humrawi is never drunk on liquor or beer. However, they
> use the word saran, which means drunk, to describe the effects that
> umm nyolokh has upon him. After drinking umm nyolokh the hunters have
> auditory and visual hallucinations of giraffe. They believe that by
> drinking umm nyolokh they will be able to return to the giraffe again
> and again.
>
> Ref: Ian Cunnison - 1958 'Giraffe hunting among the Humr tribe' - 39.
> Sudan Notes and Records
>
> Since giraffe eat acacia which is know to contain DMT, this is highly
> plausible. I recall someone mentioning that DMT was in fact found in
> giraffe liver but I'm not sure about this. In any case it opens up all
> sorts of new lines of investigation. Many shamanic animals may in fact
> be psychoactive and be associated with hallucinations of that animal,
> as in the giraffe case above.

And a final anthropological/entheogenic item from my pal:

> This reminds me of an article I read in the 80's in Current Anthropology by
> Kennedy. It was on the were-jaguar motif in Mayan/Olmec
> iconography. She argued that much of what were considered jaguar
> images, where in fact toad - bufo sp. Huge amounts of frog remains
> are found in Mayan/Olmec sites. More interesting, she goes on to
> argue that the Maya/Olmec did not consume the frog itself. Rather, they fed
> the frog to ducks. She did some research into this and it turns out
> some species of duck catch and consume
> these frogs. The idea is the Maya fed the frogs to the ducks and then
> ate the ducks liver for the psychedelic experience.

A gastro-delic fantasy: `Hey garcon, one duck liver pate, s'il vous
plait, followed by a medium rare giraffe liver with a side portion
of cannabis salad.....and don't forget the butterfly vomit liquor.'>>