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Originally Posted by abyss_al
myth... he had syphilis, which lead to his insanity 
absinthe is not really supposed to be hallucinatory... if you are seeing shit, then it was not made properly... the effects that it was praised for were clarity of mind and a lubrication of speech  |
...and further more:
...the whole green fairy thing people think of from movies is BS...
the term green fairy was coined by Alistair Crowley in a poem of the same name that he wrote about Absinthe... it is metaphorical, "chasing the green fairy" is a play on the the term "chasing the dragon" which is a reference to smoking opium; which was at that time the drug of choice for poets and artists
Alistair Crowely was a mystic philosopher, a poet and a Free Mason, who started his own sect of masonry called the Order of the Thelema, which focused on the combination of masonry with Magick and other mystical religions which might eplain dragons and fairies
