Transcript Not All Mushrooms Are Delicious

Not All
Mushrooms Are
Delicious
Europe

Emperor Claudius fed
Amanita phaloides
(muscarine toxin) by his
wife/niece Agrippina
(54AD)
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Pope Clement VII
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Excommunicates King
Henry VIII of England
Advocate of
Copernican system
India
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1500BC: Hindu Vedas
mention the use of
Amanita muscaria
for spiritual
awakening and
communication with
the gods
Mesoamerica

Countless Mayan
depictions of mushrooms
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Psilocybe sp. use popular
among indigenous
cultures to this day
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Magic mushrooms come
to prominence in the
West in 1960s
Russia
 Before
the invention of
vodka in the 16th
century, Amanita
muscaria (toadstool)
the intoxicant of
choice.
 Siberian
practice of
“mushroom recycling”
 Peter
the Great’s
parents died from
overdose (1694)
America

Boonesville, Missouri:
sheriff responds to 911
call after resident hears
woman screaming in
the wood
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Mushroom hunter
shrieking with delight at
each new discovery