Centuries of votive offerings cast into a lake in Denmark and other archaeological discoveries have revealed that barbarian warriors may have indulged in psychotropic drugs to stimulate themselves during battle against the Romans and other enemies.
These warriors may have used small spoons — dozens of which have been discovered attached to Barbarian belts — to ingest or measure magic mushrooms, an organic precursor for LSD or other substances.
“The lack of fatigue or inhibition, and the mobilization before a battle were desirable,” says Anna Jarosz-Wilkołazka, a biologist at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Poland. “Therefore, products natural at that time were sought which had this effect on the warrior’s body.”
