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2,000 years ago before any kind of mainstream science everything was believed to be of magical origin, and alchohol was believed to be made of literal spirits. The very adept Greeks realized that alchohol evaporated rapidly and figured that it did so because it was getting up and going somewhere else.
This may have also been the origin of the concept of a genie, people realized that some spirits were more "potent" than others, and created myths that some were very powerful, but could be imprisoned in a bottle since they were made of air.
Throughout history artists and poets and such have sought inspiration from "spirits", thus the stereotype of the drunk poet, and in modern culture, the musician seeking his muse in things such as LSD or THC.
A bit more of arcane trivia I came across some years back on this subject, the archaic definition of "inspire" was "to breathe into, as by a spirit". All inspiration was once believed to be supernatural, biblical inspiration being just one example.
And in The Bible when christ is crucified the apostles are reasonably depressed - then all of a sudden they run around telling everyone that they've seen christ risen from the dead - but nobody believes them. Some accuse them of being drunk. They reply that they are not drunk, but *filled with the holy spirit*.
Very interesting.
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