Comments on: Literary Review: ‘The Seven Sisters of Sleep’ by Mordecai Cooke http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/28/literary-review-%e2%80%98the-seven-sisters-of-sleep%e2%80%99-by-mordecai-cooke/ A rhizome of drugs, writing and culture Wed, 16 May 2012 09:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Literary Review: ‘Psychedelia Britannica’ by Antonio Melechi [ed.] « Psychedelic Press UK http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/28/literary-review-%e2%80%98the-seven-sisters-of-sleep%e2%80%99-by-mordecai-cooke/#comment-3602 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:53:59 +0000 http://psypressuk.com/?p=628#comment-3602 [...] larger and smaller and of mushroom taking are thought to have been influenced by Mordecai Cooke’s The Seven Sisters of Sleep (1860), which included similar stories about mushrooms, brought back from Siberia by travellers. [...]

]]> By: Literary Review: ‘Alice in Acidland – Lewis Carroll Revisited’ by Thomas Fensch « Psychedelic Press UK http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/28/literary-review-%e2%80%98the-seven-sisters-of-sleep%e2%80%99-by-mordecai-cooke/#comment-3366 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:09:42 +0000 http://psypressuk.com/?p=628#comment-3366 [...] summarise, it seems likely that Carroll took the motif of growing smaller and larger from the book The Seven Sisters of Sleep (1860) by Mordecai Cooke, which described Siberian shamans using the Fly agaric mushroom. No [...]

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