huacacachu

Updated: August 2, 2026

I afterwards found that the Indian had been drinking a powerful narcotic, prepared from the thorn-apple, and which is called huacacachu, or grave-plant, from the power it is supposed to possess of enabling those who drink it to see the inhabitants of the graves.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Manco, the Peruvian Chief: An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas