As above pretty much. There is a growing popularity worldwide (yay internet) for ingesting the storybook mushroom 🍄 in various ways for its psychoactive effects such as pain relief, tripping, sleep aid, relaxation and so on. Not at all as well known as the “magic mushrooms” that contain other compounds but getting more popular. Thing is the mushroom is surrounded by a lot of myths like that the Vikings ate it before battle to make them go berserk (story manufactured in modern times) or that Santa Claus in some way represented the mushroom (no evidence for that whatsoever). It is also said that people in “Siberia” had a tradition of consuming it and that it was common and so on. Is this something found in folklore in the eastern parts? On the one hand it is a psychoactive mushroom so surely it has to some extent been used wherever it grows because that’s what humans do, once we stumble upon something that makes us high we take note. On the other hand we don’t know how much it was used as a lot of the stories tell of times before written history so anybody can make something up then.

So what say you? Any stories of babushkas who used to treat their pains with fly agaric and milk? Or tales of nomads who dried it for winter to hook up with the gods at times?