Amanita Muscaria Part 1: Ancient Mushroom Mysteries

In this episode, our wooden bowls floweth over with deep lore and more! We embark on a mystical journey to the land of the Koryak and Chukchi in Northeast Asia, and tell tales of what many people believe to be the original magic mushroom, Amanita Muscaria (aka Fly Agaric). You know we love primary source documents, so we're checking in with some 19th-century Russian dissidents who were exiled to Siberia and wrote some of the first accounts of Amanita use among the local Indigenous population.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

Anna Reid, "The Shaman's Coat" [2002]

N.N. Dikov, "Mysteries in the Rocks at Ancient Chukotka" [1971]

Maret Saar in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, "Ethnomycological Data from Siberia and North-East Asia on the Effect of Amanita Muscaria" [1991]

Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, "An Historico-Geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia" [1736]

Waldemar Jochelson in The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History "The Koryak" [1908]

Waldemar Bogoras in American Anthropologist, "The Chukchi of Northeastern Asia" [1901]

Waldemar Bogoras in The Journal of American Folklore, "Chuckchee Tales" [1928]

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