A very mushroom Christmas (audio)

Psilocybin "magic mushrooms" growing in a lab

Ethnomycology is the study of the historical uses and sociological impact of mushrooms (the fruiting bodies of fungi), a subfield of ethnobotany and ethnobiology.

Xmas is all about the lore and sociology of entheogenic mushroom use by Scandinavian shamans who were the medicine men and women of the Sami (the Laplanders or Native Scandinavians) and other Nordic peoples who gave us most of our Christmas legends and traditions.

Although in theory the term includes fungi used for such purposes as medicine (medicinal mushrooms), food (including yeast), and tinder, it is often used in the context of the study of psychoactive mushrooms such as psilocybin mushrooms, the Amanita muscaria or entheogenic fly agaric mushroom, and the ergot fungus. More