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Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - A meadow filled with Tartars
Identifier
014710
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
A description of the experience
The Hasheesh Eater – Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Our way led through a broad meadow, at that season beautifully green, and before my gaze it grew into a tremendous Asiatic plateau thronged with innumerable Tartars. As if assembling for a foray, they rushed past me in mad haste, their oblique eyes snapping with a ferocious light, and plumes of horse hair streaming from their tufted caps. It is not possible to convey to a mind in its ordinary state the effect produced by beholding a field which one has been accustomed to see vacant suddenly bristling with weird and foreign forms, which by perfect distinctness of outline equal in reality, while they surpass in impressiveness the most usual objects of daily sight.