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Talk:Mescalito
The word Mescalito fist time appeared in books of Carlos Castaneda,
Jay Courtney Fikes, a researcher who has studied peyote in depth says:
| “ | the name that don Juan gave to the peyote deity, "Mescalito," has never been mentioned by any of the three hundred thousand NAC members, who belong to some seventy distinct tribes within the United States, nor by members of Mexican Indian tribes such as the Tarahumara or Huichol, whose reverence for peyote is unsurpassed. | ” |
| — An Interview With Jay Courtney Fikes[1] | ||