Featured there is Amanita Muscaria, which isn’t really that poisonous. White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.
Some even theorise that the reason Santa is red and white comes from Amanitas, basically a siberian shaman got fucked up on shrooms and climbed down the middle pole of the tent to give everyone else shrooms as well. Which is why Santa comes from the chimney and gives colorful presents. :) (Or so some people have theorised, I’m not asserting it as fact lol.)
edit and also reindeer love chomping on amanitas, and amanitas are associated with feelings of “flying”. and the way these people would get high is that the shaman would eat a lot of shrooms, then after he got high he’d piss in a bowl and that piss would get people really high.)
I call bullshit on that one. Santa is red and white because Coca Cola drabbed him in their colors for a marketing campaign and it catched on. Before that Santa was usually portrayed in white and green.
Coke may have (re)popularised them, but they didn’t originate them, so the Siberian shroom santa is still technically possible if not plausible.
Although it may seem a fortunate coincidence, the use of red and white colours for Santa’s outfit was not a homage to Coca-Cola’s brand colours, but rather was inspired by the Bishop’s mitre clothing which may have been worn by the real St Nicholas
https://www.citma.org.uk/resources/the-story-of-santa-and-coca-cola-blog.html
Fair enough.
Popular myth
White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.
These are my favorites because of their common name. Destroying Angel.
Fun fact: the survival rate without treatment is about half, but that goes up to ~90% if you get treated quickly. However, it can still destroy your liver. The toxin is thermostable so cooking doesn’t break it down. It is excreted in urine so a lot of the treatment consists of pumping you full of fluids and making you pee a lot. There is no actual antidote to the toxin.
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Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.
I’m also curious as to what the symbiotic relationship with the genus Mustelidae is
He just did!
But we know what they are - they’re mushrooms.
eat psychedelic mushrooms, kids. they’re good for ya!
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you’re going to fall
Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah
But he did just teach us about mushrooms!
“live saving”
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
What do you think he’s refering to?
They’re just very exited, give them a break.
Isn’t there a conspiracy theories that the shrooms are a hive mind secretly guiding humanity’s evolution into godhood?
Do you mean the stoned ape theory? Never have seen it interpreted in that way, but it’s weirdly comforting and I kinda want to believe it now. Makes humanity feel less lost when there could be some fungi buddies looking after us, secretly manipulating us into becoming better beings.
How do magnets work?
What are birds? We just dont know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw
so mycology is a made up science?
I love this post. Thank you.
He sounds like a fun guy.
