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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) in folklore

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) growing in prime-forest Štirovača,Croatia

An old record shows a folklore custom among Koryaks (an indigenous people from north of Kamchatka like this;

Koryak ceremony of starting New Fire

"When they prepare ceremony, few of those mushrooms (Fly agaric) are boiled with water. Liquid they drank, makes them intoxicated.

Koryak shaman

Those poorer ones, that can not aquire the same mushroom, gather around the huts of the richh and lurd for an opportunity for them to came out to urinate. Then they put a wooden bowl beneath them and collect their urin, which they greedly drink, so they got intoxicated as well."

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