Hikuli walúla sälíami, “hikuli great authority,” is the greatest of all; it is extremely rare, and Lumholtz never saw a specimen, though it was described to him as “growing in clusters of from eight to twelve inches in diameter, resembling wanamé with many young ones around it.”[6] Ocoyome, unlike the preceding hikuli which are good, is used only for evil purposes. It has long white spines or “claws,” and comes from the Devil. If accidentally touched with the foot, it would break one’s leg; it also throws offenders over precipices.[7] Lumholtz says it was very rarely used, and Mooney says the Tarahumari used it not at all—though the “Apaches” did—since it was “poison.” Mooney describes the plant as having a reddish down, root and surface, which may account for the Apaches’ tying it around their waists to make them brave, in their battles.[8] Bennett and Zingg are perhaps referring to the same plant under the name “peyote cimarrón,” which is “small, red, and ineffective; it is not used or even touched, since the abuser might die.” “Peyote christiano” (hikuli dewéame), a larger, green variety, apparently Lophophora, is considered the “most efficacious.”[9] Bennett and Zingg give two other kinds of cactus used by the Tarahumari:[10] Witculíki (Mex. _biznaga_, _Mammillaria hyderi_), a ball cactus of the gorges, is roasted about four minutes in ashes, after being split and divested of its spines; the soft center is squeezed into the ear in case of earache or deafness. (This curiously echoes of the talking peyote stories.) Bakánawa or bakánori, a small ball cactus, is used by the Indians of the barrancas. Shamans, not peyoteros, carry small bits of the root in their bags; it can be kept only three years, after which it must be sold or hidden, lest the owner go crazy. The shaman chews and anoints the patient with it. So powerful is it that runners use it three days before racing; one man died of fear after having offended this plant. NON-CACTI Of the ritually used narcotics of this area we have already discussed the “mescal bean,” or _Sophora secundiflora_, and teo-nanacatl, the sacred mushroom of the Aztec and Chichimeca.[11] The use of marihuana (_Cannabis_ spp.) in counteracting sorcery, and other beliefs surrounding its employment are also elsewhere discussed.[12] The use of the mescal-bean of the southern Plains and the various alcoholic drinks[13] of Mexico and the Southwest are perhaps related to the “black drink” made of the leaves and twigs of the “beloved tree” (_Ilex cassine_), which is distributed continuously from the Carolinas to the Rio Grande, with a continuation of the trait across the Antilles into northeastern and central South America.[14]