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<div>Lycopodium clavatum 1. and other club mosses</div>
<div>indigenous to Europe (Lycopodium spp.; cf. also</div>
<div>Huperzia selago) are known by a variety of</div>
<div>common names, including Druid's foot herb,</div>
<div>Druid's foot, Druid's plant, Druid's flour, Druid's</div>
<div>foot flour, witches' plant, witches' flour, witches'</div>
<div>flour plant, witches' dust, snake moss, devil's claw,</div>
<div>devil's claw flour, devil's rubbish, and disquiet. The</div>
<div>spores are known as witches' flour, Druid's flour,</div>
<div>lightning powder, dusting powder, and moss</div>
<div>powder. These names suggest an ancient use in</div>
<div>pagan rituals and strong associations with witchcraft.</div>
<div>One German name, biiriapp, means "uterine</div>
<div>ointment" (Beckmann and Beckmann 1990, 196*).</div>
<div>Lycopodium clavatum and similar species</div>
<div>(L. cernuum 1., 1. hamiltonii Spreng., 1. serratum</div>
<div>Thunb., 1. subulifolium Wall. ex Hook. et Grev.)</div>
<div>are found also in Nepal. There, the club moss is</div>
<div>sacred to the Hindu god Vishnu and is used in</div>
<div>garlands and other objects at his festivals.</div>
<div>Club moss (Lycopodium clavatum 1.) contains</div>
<div>a toxic or psychoactively effective alkaloid</div>
<div>complex that is generally referred to as "c1avatine" which even includes nicotine (Roth et al. 1994,</div>
<div>477*).</div>

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