Among the agricultural Indians that lived along the southern end of the Bosque River and in East Texas, June was the time of the First Fruits Ceremony in which past deeds were forgiven and everyone experienced a sense of renewal. No one were allowed to eat any of the new vegetables until after “a ceremony both mysterious and remarkable” known as the feast of the new fruits. It consisted of dedicating the first beans and corn (separate ceremonies) to the sun and earth and purifying the village . On the appointed day the pathways through the village were swept and the council house cleaned and decorated with wildflowers. All drank a hallucinogenic, emetic [mescal bean] tea and spent the day singing and purging themselves before they they ate, “worthy of the first fruits of the year.”

Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969.