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In Siberia they actually traditionally dried fly agaric (amanita muscaria) mushrooms. Flying reindeers are a thing, they always ate the mushrooms and got high af, but without any headaches the next day.
Vodka replaced the mushrooms, as its easy to store I guess. It was sold to them.
I'm sorry... What?
The santa claus story is veeery random. Like flying reindeers just like that, a dude in red-white clothes, a pine tree with red balls on it.
People dried fly agaric mushrooms on pine trees, they are red. Sibirian shamans dressed like a fly agaric mushroom and went from house to house to gift them to people and make them less depressed, because they are said to help with that
Its pretty funny and makes a lot of sense
Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology
Where's the confusion?
Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology
Where's the confusion?
It's a little more disgusting than you've mentioned here.
https://www.drugtimes.org/hallucinogens-culture/the-flyagaric-and-the-intoxicating-urine.html
Wanted to skip that part haha, but yeah santa claus got high on reindeer-purified mushroom urine.