File:Popular medicine, customs and superstitions of the Rio Grande, John G. Bourke, 1894.pdf

Summary

John G. Bourke (1894-01-05) "Popular medicine, customs, and superstitions of the Rio Grande", Journal of American folklore, vol. 7-8, pp. 119-146.

This essay, describing the beliefs of Mexican residents of the recently annexed Texas region of the United States, is noted by several sources as the first occurrence of "mariguana", a Mexican slang term for Cannabis indica which later came to be used widely in the United States as "marihuana" or "marijuana". I also note it as a very early reference to the w:Three on a match (superstition). Though lacking the technological sophistication of similar resources from ancient Rome, it nonetheless appears to have some potential as an ethnobotanical resource.

The author died more than 100 years ago, according to s:Author:John Gregory Bourke.

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