Thanks to a comment from Lisa who writes the Mycologista blog, I was pointed to a video called “Fly Amanita” by David Fenster. I can only post YouTube videos at Fungal Visions, so the best thing to do was write a brief post about it here. “Fly Amanita” features: The thoughts of an Amanita muscaria [...]
Tags: Amanita muscaria, Bob Cummings, Vimeo
Anyone who has had the slightest interest in mushrooms over the years no doubt knows of the theories connecting aspects of the Christmas tradition with Amanita muscaria. I figure today is as good a day as any to make mention of it. How credible are these theories? Well, reasonably so in my opinion, although it [...]
Tags: Amanita muscaria, Christmas, ethnomycology