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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago

I remember reading that the Sami people used to drink the piss of a reindeer that had eaten fly agaric/fly amanita mushrooms since even though they're poisonous, most of the poison gets left in the reindeer while the nice hallucinogenic stuff passes through. Wikipedia put it a bit differently:

Patrick Harding describes the Sami custom of processing the fly agaric through reindeer.

Processing does sound nicer.

[-] Truffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I remember reading about this too (cannot remember where exactly. It was a long time ago) and how that practice helped shape the idea of Santa's flying reindeer.

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