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A szaprotróf "varázsgombától" (''[[Psilocybe cubensis]]'') eltérően a légyölő galócát fákkal való mikorrhizás kapcsolódása miatt igen nehéz termeszteni. Ennek ellenére sokan megpróbálkoztak vele, például Angliában, miután 2006-ban betiltották a pszilocibintartalmú gombák kereskedelmét.<ref name=EMC2006>{{cite book|title=Hallucinogenic mushrooms an emerging trend case study.|date=2006|publisher=European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction|location=Lisbon|isbn=978-92-9168-249-2|url=http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_31215_EN_TP_Hallucinogenic_mushrooms.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|17}}
 
===Felhasználása===
Professor [[Marija Gimbutienė]], a renowned Lithuanian historian, reported to [[R. Gordon Wasson]] on the use of this mushroom in Lithuania. In remote areas of [[Lithuania]], ''Amanita muscaria'' has been consumed at [[wedding feast]]s, in which mushrooms were mixed with [[vodka]]. The professor also reported that the Lithuanians used to export ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' to the [[Sami people|Sami]] in the Far North for use in [[shamanic]] rituals. The Lithuanian festivities are the only report that Wasson received of ingestion of fly agaric for religious use in Eastern Europe.<ref name=Wasson1980>{{cite book |title=The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica |last=Wasson |first=R. Gordon|year=1980|publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-068443-0}}</ref>{{rp|43–44}}
 
===Siberia===
[[File:Amanita muscaria. Eastern Siberia.jpg|thumb|upright|''Amanita muscaria'', Eastern Siberia]]
''AmanitaSzibéria muscaria''népei wasrégóta widelyhasználják useda aslégyölő angalócát [[entheogen]]spirituális bytudatmódosító many(enteogén) ofszerként; theerre [[indigenousa peoplescélra ofa Siberia]]. Its use was known among almost all of the [[Uralic languages|Uralic]]nyugat-speakingszibériai peoplesuráli ofnyelveket westernbeszélő, Siberiavalaamint anda thekeleti [[Paleosiberian]]-speaking peoples of thepaleoszibériai [[Russiannépek Faregyaránt East]]alkalmazták. ThereEzzel areszemben onlya isolatedközép-szibériai reportstunguz ofés ''A.&nbsp;muscaria''türk usenyelvű amongtörzsek theesetében [[Tungusiccsak peoples|Tungusic]] and [[Turkic peoples]] of central Siberia and it is believed that on the whole entheogenic use of ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' was not practisedszórványos byesetekre thesevan peoplesbizonyíték.<ref name="nyberg1">{{cite journal|author=Nyberg, H.|year=1992|title=Religious use of hallucinogenic fungi: A comparison between Siberian and Mesoamerican Cultures|journal=Karstenia|volume=32|issue=71–80|pages=71–80|url=http://www.funga.fi/Karstenia/Karstenia%2032-2%201992-4.pdf|doi=10.29203/ka.1992.294|access-date=2018-05-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515183752/http://www.funga.fi/Karstenia/Karstenia%2032-2%201992-4.pdf|archive-date=2018-05-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> InNyugat-Szibériában westerncsak Siberia,a thesámánok use of ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' was restricted to shamansfogyasztották, who used it as an alternative method of achievingakik a [[trance]] state.segítségével (Normally,valamint Siberiandobolással shamansés achievetánccal) trancetransz-szerű bytudatállapotot prolongedérhettek drumming and dancingel.) InKeleten easternviszont Siberia,nem ''A.&nbsp;muscaria''csak wasa usedsámánok, byhanem bothmindenki shamansette anda laypeople alikegalócát, and was used recreationallyvallási asés wellrekreációs ascélból religiouslyegyaránt.<ref name="nyberg1" /> InKeleten easternaz Siberia,id the [[shamanism|shaman]] would take the mushroomselőfordult, andhogy othersa wouldsámán drinkmegette hisa urine.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|161}} This urinegombt, stilla containingtöbbiek psychoactivepedig elements,megitták maya behatóanyagokat moretartalmazó potent than the ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' mushrooms with fewer negative effects such as sweating and twitchingvizeletét, suggesting that the initial user may act asamely a screeninggalócafogyasztáshoz filterképest forkevesebb otherkellemetlen componentsmellékhatással injárt.<ref the mushroom.name=Wasson1968/><ref name="Diaz">{{cite book|author=Diaz, J.|title=How Drugs Influence Behavior: A Neurobehavioral Approach|publisher=Prentice Hall|location=Upper Saddle River, N.J.|year=1996|isbn=978-0-02-328764-0 }}</ref>
 
A kelet-szibériai korjakok egyik mondájában Vahijinin isten a Földre köpött és nyálából lett a légyölő galóca. Nagy Holló (a korjakok védelmezője) megette és olyan erős lett tőle, hogy egy egész bálnát haza tudott vinni; ezután megmondta a gombának hogy örökké nőjön a földön, hogy gyermekeinek (a korjakoknak) is jusson belőle.<ref name = "Ramsbottom45">Ramsbottom, p 45.</ref>
The [[Koryaks|Koryak]] of eastern Siberia have a story about the fly agaric (''wapaq'') which enabled Big Raven to carry a whale to its home. In the story, the deity ''Vahiyinin'' ("Existence") spat onto earth, and his [[spittle]] became the ''wapaq'', and his saliva becomes the warts. After experiencing the power of the ''wapaq'', Raven was so exhilarated that he told it to grow forever on earth so his children, the people, could learn from it.<ref name = "Ramsbottom45">Ramsbottom, p 45.</ref> Among the [[Koryaks]], one report said that the poor would consume the urine of the wealthy, who could afford to buy the mushrooms.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|234–35}}
 
TheMás Finnishnépeknél historianis [[T.előfordult, I.hogy Itkonen]]kihasználták mentionsa thatgomba ''Ahallucinogén hatásait.&nbsp;muscaria'' wasAz onceészak-finnországi usedlappokról among the [[Sami people]]: sorcerers in [[Inarifeljegeyezték, Finland|Inari]]hogy wouldrégen consumevarázslóik flyrendszeresen agaricsfogyasztottak withhétpettyes sevenlégyölő spotsgalócát.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|279}} InAfganisztánban 1979,a Saidparacsi Gholamnyelvet Mochtarbeszélő andhegyi [[Hartmuttörzsek Geerken]]elmebajosokkal published an article in which they claim to have discovereditatták a traditiongalóca ofkivonatát, medicinalde andfagyásokat recreationalis usekezeltek of this mushroom among a [[Parachi]]-speaking group in [[Afghanistan]]vele.<ref>"Several Shutulis asserted that Amanita-extract was administered orally as a medicine for treatment of psychotic conditions, as well as externally as a therapy for localised frostbite." {{cite journal|url=http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/references/journal/1979_mochtar_afghanistan1.shtml|title=The Hallucinogens Muscarine and Ibotenic Acid in the Middle Hindu Kush: A contribution on traditional medicinal mycology in Afghanistan|author1=Mochtar, S. G. |author2= Geerken, H.|translator=P. G. Werner|year=1979|journal=Afghanistan Journal|volume=6|pages=62–65|language=de|access-date=2009-02-23| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090217163249/http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/references/journal/1979_mochtar_afghanistan1.shtml| archive-date= 17 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> ThereMegerősítetlen arejelentések alsoszerint unconfirmeda reportskanadai ofodzsibvé religiousés usetlicso ofindiánok ''A.&nbsp;muscaria''is amongismerték twoés Subarcticalkalmazták [[Indigenousa peopleslégyölő ofgalóca thetudatmódosító Americas|Native American]] tribes. [[Ojibwa]] ethnobotanist [[Keewaydinoquay Peschel]] reported its use among her people, where it was known as the {{transl|oj|miskwedo}}hatását.<ref>{{cite book|author =Peschel, Keewaydinoquay|author-link=Keewaydinoquay Peschel|title= Puhpohwee for the people: a narrative account of some uses of fungi among the Ahnishinaubeg|publisher=Botanical Museum of Harvard University|location=Cambridge, MA|year=1978|isbn=978-1-879528-18-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Navet, E. |year=1988 |title=Les Ojibway et l'Amanite tue-mouche (''Amanita muscaria''). Pour une éthnomycologie des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord |journal=Journal de la Société des Américanistes |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=163–80 |doi=10.3406/jsa.1988.1334 |language=fr }}</ref> This information was enthusiastically received by Wasson, although evidence from other sources was lacking.<ref>Letcher, p 149.</ref> There is also one account of a Euro-American who claims to have been initiated into traditional [[Tlicho]] use of ''Amanita muscaria''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Larsen, S.|title=The Shaman's Doorway|publisher=Station Hill Press|location=New York, NY|year=1976|isbn=978-0-89281-672-9}}</ref> TheLitvánia flyingfélreesőbb [[reindeer]]vidékein ofmég [[Santaa Claus]], whoközelmúltban is calledrendszeresen [[Joulupukki]]fogyasztottak inlégyölő [[Finland|Finnland]],galócát coulda symbolizelakodalmakon, theáltalában usenagy ofmennyiségű ''A.vodkával muscaria'' by Sámi shamansegyütt.<ref name=Wasson1980>{{Citecite book web|last=Xulu|first=Melanie|date=2017-12-12|title=SantaThe Claus the MagicWondrous Mushroom: &Mycolatry thein PsychedelicMesoamerica Origins|last=Wasson of Christmas|urlfirst=https://moofmagR.com/2017/12/12/santa-claus-the-magic-mushroom-the-psychedelic-origins-of-christmas/ Gordon|access-dateyear=2020-12-261980|websitepublisher=MOOFMcGraw-Hill |languageisbn=en978-0-07-068443-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webrp|title=Magic mushrooms & Reindeer - Weird Nature - BBC animals - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCS9ePWuLU|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.youtube.com43–44}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
===Other reports of use===
The Finnish historian [[T. I. Itkonen]] mentions that ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' was once used among the [[Sami people]]: sorcerers in [[Inari, Finland|Inari]] would consume fly agarics with seven spots.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|279}} In 1979, Said Gholam Mochtar and [[Hartmut Geerken]] published an article in which they claim to have discovered a tradition of medicinal and recreational use of this mushroom among a [[Parachi]]-speaking group in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>"Several Shutulis asserted that Amanita-extract was administered orally as a medicine for treatment of psychotic conditions, as well as externally as a therapy for localised frostbite." {{cite journal|url=http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/references/journal/1979_mochtar_afghanistan1.shtml|title=The Hallucinogens Muscarine and Ibotenic Acid in the Middle Hindu Kush: A contribution on traditional medicinal mycology in Afghanistan|author1=Mochtar, S. G. |author2= Geerken, H.|translator=P. G. Werner|year=1979|journal=Afghanistan Journal|volume=6|pages=62–65|language=de|access-date=2009-02-23| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090217163249/http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/references/journal/1979_mochtar_afghanistan1.shtml| archive-date= 17 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> There are also unconfirmed reports of religious use of ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' among two Subarctic [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes. [[Ojibwa]] ethnobotanist [[Keewaydinoquay Peschel]] reported its use among her people, where it was known as the {{transl|oj|miskwedo}}.<ref>{{cite book|author =Peschel, Keewaydinoquay|author-link=Keewaydinoquay Peschel|title= Puhpohwee for the people: a narrative account of some uses of fungi among the Ahnishinaubeg|publisher=Botanical Museum of Harvard University|location=Cambridge, MA|year=1978|isbn=978-1-879528-18-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Navet, E. |year=1988 |title=Les Ojibway et l'Amanite tue-mouche (''Amanita muscaria''). Pour une éthnomycologie des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord |journal=Journal de la Société des Américanistes |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=163–80 |doi=10.3406/jsa.1988.1334 |language=fr }}</ref> This information was enthusiastically received by Wasson, although evidence from other sources was lacking.<ref>Letcher, p 149.</ref> There is also one account of a Euro-American who claims to have been initiated into traditional [[Tlicho]] use of ''Amanita muscaria''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Larsen, S.|title=The Shaman's Doorway|publisher=Station Hill Press|location=New York, NY|year=1976|isbn=978-0-89281-672-9}}</ref> The flying [[reindeer]] of [[Santa Claus]], who is called [[Joulupukki]] in [[Finland|Finnland]], could symbolize the use of ''A. muscaria'' by Sámi shamans.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Xulu|first=Melanie|date=2017-12-12|title=Santa Claus the Magic Mushroom & the Psychedelic Origins of Christmas|url=https://moofmag.com/2017/12/12/santa-claus-the-magic-mushroom-the-psychedelic-origins-of-christmas/|access-date=2020-12-26|website=MOOF|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Magic mushrooms & Reindeer - Weird Nature - BBC animals - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCS9ePWuLU|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
 
Egyes elképzelések szerint a Finnországban élő Télapó repülő rénszarvasai is galócaevő lapp sámánokhoz vezethetők vissza.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Xulu|first=Melanie|date=2017-12-12|title=Santa Claus the Magic Mushroom & the Psychedelic Origins of Christmas|url=https://moofmag.com/2017/12/12/santa-claus-the-magic-mushroom-the-psychedelic-origins-of-christmas/|access-date=2020-12-26|website=MOOF|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Magic mushrooms & Reindeer - Weird Nature - BBC animals - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCS9ePWuLU|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> A 18-19. században felvetették, hogy a germán és viking legendák őrjöngő berserkerei is légyölő galóca hatáa alatt vetették magukat a csatába; erre azonban semmilyen korabeli utalás sincs és a gomba hatóanyaga, a muszcimol inkább nyugtató hatású.<ref name=Hoff>{{cite book|last=Hoffer|first=A.|author2=Osmond, H.|author-link=Abram Hoffer|title=The Hallucinogens|publisher=Academic Press|year=1967|pages=443–54|isbn=978-0-12-351850-7}}</ref> A mérgezés tünetei alapján a beléndek megfelelőbbnek látszik hasonló állapot előidézésére.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fatur|first=Karsten|date=2019-11-15|title=Sagas of the Solanaceae: Speculative ethnobotanical perspectives on the Norse berserkers|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=244|pages=112151|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2019.112151|pmid=31404578|issn=0378-8741}}</ref>
===Vikings===
The notion that [[Viking]]s used ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' to produce their [[berserker]] rages was first suggested by the Swedish professor [[Samuel Ödmann]] in 1784.<ref>{{in lang|sv}} Ödmann S. (1784) Försök at utur Naturens Historia förklara de nordiska gamla Kämpars Berserka-gang (An attempt to Explain the Berserk-raging of Ancient Nordic Warriors through Natural History). ''Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens nya Handlingar'' '''5''': 240–247 (In: Wasson, 1968)</ref> Ödmann based his theories on reports about the use of fly agaric among [[Shamanism in Siberia|Siberian shamans]]. The notion has become widespread since the 19th century, but no contemporary sources mention this use or anything similar in their description of berserkers. Muscimol is generally a mild relaxant, but it can create a range of different reactions within a group of people.<ref name=Hoff>{{cite book|last=Hoffer|first=A.|author2=Osmond, H.|author-link=Abram Hoffer|title=The Hallucinogens|publisher=Academic Press|year=1967|pages=443–54|isbn=978-0-12-351850-7}}</ref> It is possible that it could make a person angry, or cause them to be "very jolly or sad, jump about, dance, sing or give way to great fright".<ref name=Hoff/> Comparative analysis of symptoms have, however, since shown ''[[Hyoscyamus niger]]'' to be a better fit to the state that characterises the berserker rage.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fatur|first=Karsten|date=2019-11-15|title=Sagas of the Solanaceae: Speculative ethnobotanical perspectives on the Norse berserkers|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=244|pages=112151|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2019.112151|pmid=31404578|issn=0378-8741}}</ref>
 
Recently,Közép- anés analysisKelet-Európában ofa ninetejbe differentkevert methodsszárított forgombát preparingrégóta ''A.használták muscaria''legyek forelpusztítására: catchinginnen fliesis inkapta [[Slovenia]]a havefaj showna that the release of ibotenic acid and muscimol did not depend on the solvent (milk or water) and that thermal and mechanical processing led to faster extraction of ibotenic acid and muscimolnevét.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Lumpert | year = 2016 | title = Catching flies with Amanita muscaria: traditional recipes from Slovenia and their efficacy in the extraction of ibotenic acid | doi = 10.1016/j.jep.2016.04.009 | journal = Journal of Ethnopharmacology | volume = 187 | pages = 1–8 | pmid=27063872}}</ref>
==Fly trap==
''Amanita muscaria'' is traditionally used for catching flies possibly due to its content of [[ibotenic acid]] and [[muscimol]].
Recently, an analysis of nine different methods for preparing ''A. muscaria'' for catching flies in [[Slovenia]] have shown that the release of ibotenic acid and muscimol did not depend on the solvent (milk or water) and that thermal and mechanical processing led to faster extraction of ibotenic acid and muscimol.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Lumpert | year = 2016 | title = Catching flies with Amanita muscaria: traditional recipes from Slovenia and their efficacy in the extraction of ibotenic acid | doi = 10.1016/j.jep.2016.04.009 | journal = Journal of Ethnopharmacology | volume = 187 | pages = 1–8 | pmid=27063872}}</ref>
 
==Fogyaszthatósága==
==In religion==
 
===Soma===
{{See also|Botanical identity of Soma-Haoma}}
 
In 1968, [[R. Gordon Wasson]] proposed that ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' was the ''[[Soma (drink)|soma]]'' talked about in the [[Rigveda]] of India,<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|10}} a claim which received widespread publicity and popular support at the time.<ref name=Letcher145>Letcher, p 145.</ref> He noted that descriptions of ''Soma'' omitted any description of roots, stems or seeds, which suggested a mushroom,<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|18}} and used the adjective ''hári'' "dazzling" or "flaming" which the author interprets as meaning red.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|36–37}} One line described men urinating ''Soma''; this recalled the practice of recycling urine in Siberia. Soma is mentioned as coming "from the mountains", which Wasson interpreted as the mushroom having been brought in with the Aryan invaders from the north.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|22–24}} Indian scholars Santosh Kumar Dash and Sachinanda Padhy pointed out that both eating of mushrooms and drinking of urine were proscribed, using as a source the ''[[Manusmṛti]]''.<ref name=Letcher146>Letcher, p 146.</ref>
In 1971, Vedic scholar John Brough from Cambridge University rejected Wasson's theory and noted that the language was too vague to determine a description of Soma.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0041977X0012957X|author=Brough, J.|title=Soma and ''Amanita muscaria''|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=34|issue=2|year=1971|pages=331–62}}</ref> In his 1976 survey, ''Hallucinogens and Culture'', anthropologist Peter T. Furst evaluated the evidence for and against the identification of the fly agaric mushroom as the Vedic Soma, concluding cautiously in its favour.<ref name="Furst 1976 96–108">{{cite book |title=Hallucinogens and Culture |last=Furst |first=Peter T.|year=1976|publisher=Chandler & Sharp |isbn=978-0-88316-517-1 |pages=96–108}}</ref> Kevin Feeney and Trent Austin compared the references in the Vedas with the filtering mechanisms in the preparation of Amanita muscaria and published findings supporting the proposal that fly-agaric mushrooms could be a likely candidate for the sacrament.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Kevin Feeney|date=2020|title=Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, & Exploration|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344507824|access-date=2020-12-26|website=ResearchGate|language=en}}</ref> Other proposed candidates include ''[[Psilocybe cubensis]]'', ''[[Peganum harmala]],<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Flattery|first1=David Stophlet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INtzYGQOlFoC|title=Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen "soma" and Its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle-Eastern Folklore|last2=Schwartz|first2=Martin|date=1989-01-01|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-09627-1|language=en}}</ref>'' and ''[[Ephedra (genus)|Ephedra]].''
 
[[File:Aquileia mushrooms.jpg|thumb|[[Mosaic]] of red mushrooms, found in the Christian [[Basilica]] of [[Aquileia]] in northern Italy, dating to before 330 AD]]
 
==Culinary use==
The toxins in ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' are water-soluble. Parboiling ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' can detoxify them and render an edible fruit body.<ref name="RubArora">{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s12231-008-9040-9|author=Rubel, W.|author2=Arora, D.|year=2008|title=A Study of Cultural Bias in Field Guide Determinations of Mushroom Edibility Using the Iconic Mushroom, ''Amanita Muscaria,''as an Example|journal=Economic Botany|volume=62|issue=3|pages=223–43 |s2cid=19585416| url = http://www.davidarora.com/uploads/muscaria_revised.pdf }}</ref> Although its consumption as a food has never been widespread,<ref>Viess, Debbie. [http://bayareamushrooms.org/education/further_reflections_amanita_muscaria.html "Further Reflections on Amanita muscaria as an Edible Species"]</ref> the consumption of detoxified ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' has been practiced in some parts of Europe (notably by Russian settlers in Siberia) since at least the 19th century, and likely earlier. The German physician and naturalist [[Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff]] wrote the earliest published account on how to detoxify this mushroom in 1823. In the late 19th century, the French physician [[Félix Archimède Pouchet]] was a populariser and advocate of ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' consumption, comparing it to [[manioc]], an important food source in tropical South America that must be detoxified before consumption.<ref name="RubArora"/>
 
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A 2008 paper by food historian William Rubel and mycologist David Arora gives a history of consumption of ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' as a food and describes detoxification methods. They advocate that ''Amanita muscaria'' be described in field guides as an edible mushroom, though accompanied by a description on how to detoxify it. The authors state that the widespread descriptions in field guides of this mushroom as poisonous is a reflection of [[cultural bias]], as several other popular edible species, notably [[morels]], are toxic unless properly cooked.<ref name="RubArora"/>
 
==Kulturális és vallási vonatkozások==
==Cultural depictions==
[[File:Ruebezahl (Moritz von Schwind).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Moritz von Schwind]]'s 1851 painting of ''[[Rübezahl]]'' features fly agarics.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.mykoweb.com/art-registry/1750-1850.html|title= Art Registry: 1750–1850| work=Mykoweb|access-date= 2009-02-26| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090202145757/http://mykoweb.com/art-registry/1750-1850.html| archive-date= 2 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>]]
 
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An account of the journeys of [[Philip Johan von Strahlenberg|Philip von Strahlenberg]] to Siberia and his descriptions of the use of the ''mukhomor'' there was published in English in 1736. The drinking of urine of those who had consumed the mushroom was commented on by Anglo-Irish writer [[Oliver Goldsmith]] in his widely read 1762 novel, ''Citizen of the World''.<ref>Letcher, p 122.</ref> The mushroom had been identified as the fly agaric by this time.<ref>Letcher, p 123.</ref> Other authors recorded the distortions of the size of perceived objects while intoxicated by the fungus, including naturalist [[Mordecai Cubitt Cooke]] in his books ''The Seven Sisters of Sleep'' and ''A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi''.<ref>Letcher, p 125.</ref> This observation is thought to have formed the basis of the effects of eating the mushroom in the 1865 popular story ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref name="Letcher, p 126"/> A hallucinogenic "scarlet toadstool" from Lappland is featured as a plot element in [[Charles Kingsley]]'s 1866 novel ''[[Hereward the Wake (novel)|Hereward the Wake]]'' based on the [[Hereward the Wake|medieval figure]] of the same name.<ref>Letcher, p 127.</ref> [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s 1973 novel ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' describes the fungus as a "relative of the poisonous [[Destroying angel|Destroying Angel]]" and presents a detailed description of a character preparing a cookie bake mixture from harvested ''Amanita muscaria''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Pynchon, T.|title=Gravity's Rainbow|publisher=Penguin Books|location=New York|year=1995|pages=92–93 |isbn=978-0-09-953321-4|title-link=Gravity's Rainbow}}</ref> Fly agaric shamanism is also explored in the 2003 novel ''[[Thursbitch]]'' by [[Alan Garner]].<ref>Letcher, p 129.</ref>
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==In religion==
 
===SiberiaSoma===
{{See also|Botanical identity of Soma-Haoma}}
 
In 1968, [[R. Gordon Wasson]] proposed that ''A.&nbsp;muscaria'' was the ''[[Soma (drink)|soma]]'' talked about in the [[Rigveda]] of India,<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|10}} a claim which received widespread publicity and popular support at the time.<ref name=Letcher145>Letcher, p 145.</ref> He noted that descriptions of ''Soma'' omitted any description of roots, stems or seeds, which suggested a mushroom,<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|18}} and used the adjective ''hári'' "dazzling" or "flaming" which the author interprets as meaning red.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|36–37}} One line described men urinating ''Soma''; this recalled the practice of recycling urine in Siberia. Soma is mentioned as coming "from the mountains", which Wasson interpreted as the mushroom having been brought in with the Aryan invaders from the north.<ref name=Wasson1968/>{{rp|22–24}} Indian scholars Santosh Kumar Dash and Sachinanda Padhy pointed out that both eating of mushrooms and drinking of urine were proscribed, using as a source the ''[[Manusmṛti]]''.<ref name=Letcher146>Letcher, p 146.</ref>
In 1971, Vedic scholar John Brough from Cambridge University rejected Wasson's theory and noted that the language was too vague to determine a description of Soma.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0041977X0012957X|author=Brough, J.|title=Soma and ''Amanita muscaria''|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=34|issue=2|year=1971|pages=331–62}}</ref> In his 1976 survey, ''Hallucinogens and Culture'', anthropologist Peter T. Furst evaluated the evidence for and against the identification of the fly agaric mushroom as the Vedic Soma, concluding cautiously in its favour.<ref name="Furst 1976 96–108">{{cite book |title=Hallucinogens and Culture |last=Furst |first=Peter T.|year=1976|publisher=Chandler & Sharp |isbn=978-0-88316-517-1 |pages=96–108}}</ref> Kevin Feeney and Trent Austin compared the references in the Vedas with the filtering mechanisms in the preparation of Amanita muscaria and published findings supporting the proposal that fly-agaric mushrooms could be a likely candidate for the sacrament.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Kevin Feeney|date=2020|title=Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, & Exploration|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344507824|access-date=2020-12-26|website=ResearchGate|language=en}}</ref> Other proposed candidates include ''[[Psilocybe cubensis]]'', ''[[Peganum harmala]],<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Flattery|first1=David Stophlet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INtzYGQOlFoC|title=Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen "soma" and Its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle-Eastern Folklore|last2=Schwartz|first2=Martin|date=1989-01-01|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-09627-1|language=en}}</ref>'' and ''[[Ephedra (genus)|Ephedra]].''
 
[[File:Aquileia mushrooms.jpg|thumb|[[Mosaic]] of red mushrooms, found in the Christian [[Basilica]] of [[Aquileia]] in northern Italy, dating to before 330 AD]]
 
==Taxonomy and naming==