Proper shrooms those though. Wasn’t a bumper year tbh. But I’ll dry these out and save them for the summer when I camp out on the moors. Bit of stargazing whilst tripping my tits off
Have to see if can find photos of the weird bright blue ones I found growing on one of the hills on our land... It looked fake but wasn't.
This picture isnt mine, but found some looking similar to this (mine a darker shade) didn't think they were real when first saw them. Don't see much bright blue in nature.
Fly agaric There’s a theory that Father Christmas outfit is based on the Siberian shamanic ritual use of fly agaric https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/inha...eal-story-behind-the-design-of-christmas/?amp
Have a read of the link I posted bro. It mentions Coca Cola in there, they defo had a hand in shaping the modern version of Father Christmas. But the whole outfit, flying reindeer and climbing down the chimney stuff, goes way back into our psychedelic consciousness.
The roots of Santa’s style, and his bag of goodies, sleigh, reindeer, bizarre midnight flight, distinctive chimney-based means of entry into the home, and even the way we decorate our houses at Christmas, seem to lead all the way back to the ancestral traditions of a number of indigenous arctic circle dwellers — the Kamchadales and the Koryaks of Siberia, specifically. And like so many other fantastical tales, it all originated with some really intense ‘shrooms. On the night of the winter solstice, a Koryak shaman would gather several hallucinogenic mushrooms called amanita muscaria, or fly agaric in English, and them to launch himself into a spiritual journey to the tree of life (a large pine), which lived by the North Star and held the answer to all the village’s problems from the previous year. the shaman would often hang them on lower branches of the pine they were growing under to dry out before taking them back to the village. As an alternative, he would put them in a sock and hang them over his fire to dry. Is this starting to sound familiar? When the shaman went out to gather the mushrooms, he would wear an red outfit with either white trim or white dots, in honor of the mushroom’s colors. And because at that time of year the whole region was usually covered in deep snow, he, like everyone, wore tall boots of reindeer skin that would by then be blackened from exposure. He’d gather the tree-dried fly agarics and some reindeer urine in a large sack, then return home to his yurt But how would he get into a yurt whose door was blocked by several feet of snow? He’d climb up to the roof with his bag of goodies, go to the hole in the center of the roof that acted as a chimney, and slide down the central pole that held the yurt up over the fireplace. Then he’d pass out a few ‘shrooms to each guest, and some might even partake of some of the ones that had been hung over the fire.
Father Chrismas don't really use reindeers... He uses a lorry!...you not seen the Coca Cola adverts, get yourself a TV ffs!
