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 Fly Agaric:
A Compendium of History,
Pharmacology, Mythology, &
Exploration

Edited by
Kevin M. Feeney
Acknowledgements ix

Introduction
Kevin Feeney xi

1.
Kevin Feeney 3

2. Amanita Basics
Kevin Feeney 7

3. Psychoactive Amanitas of North America

Kevin Feeney 19

PART II:
4. Soma’s Third Filter: New Findings Supporting the
Amanita muscaria as the Ancient Sacrament of
the Vedas.
Kevin Feeney & Trent Austin 51

5. Travels with Santa and his Reindeer

Lawrence Millman 63

6. A Search for Soma in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

Jason Salzman, Emanuel Salzman, Joanne Salzman & Gary
71

7. In Pursuit of Yaga Mukhomorovna: The Finno-Ugric

Frank M. Dugan 93
 8. Magical Potions: Entheogenic Themes in Scandinavian
Mythology
Steven Leto 101

9. An Attempt to Explain the Battle-Fury of the Ancient Berserker

Samuel Ödman 129

10. The Berserkers: Odin’s Warriors & the Mead of Inspiration

135

11. Amanita muscaria Motifs in

143

12.
177

13. Bride of Brightness & Mother of all Wisdom: An Ethnomyco-

Patron Saint of Ireland

195

14. Mail-Order Mushrooms: An Interview with Mark Niemoller

Kevin Feeney & Mark Niemoller 221

15. Glückspilz: The Lucky Mushroom

Kevin Feeney 241

16. The Lucky Mushroom: A New Fairy Tale Story

247

PART III:
17.
Approach
Giorgio Samorini 269

18.

297
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PART IV:
19. The Fly Amanita
331

20. Amanitas in the Family: “Brownie Seats for dinner… again?”

335

21.
Kevin Feeney 339

PART V:
22. Amanita muscaria
Ewa Maciejczyk 351

23. Re-examining the role of Muscarine in Fly Agaric inebriation

Kevin Feeney & Tjakko Stijve 367

24.
377

25. Agaricus Muscarius (1894)

391

26. Fly Agaric as Medicine: From Traditional to Modern Use

Kevin Feeney 397

27.
Kevin Feeney 419

28. The Experience

Kevin Feeney 425

29. The Formula?

Kevin Feeney 445

References 459

Index 483