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Category Archives: Vintage
More Wintry Amanitas
Expanding on yesterday’s Xmas theme, here are some winter, holiday and new year vintage images featuring fly agarics (they never seem to run out).
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Christmas Gnomes
A few wonderful New Year gnomes with Amanitas from Germany, via A Polar Bear’s Tale:
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Tagged Amanita muscaria, Christmas, fly agaric, German, gnomes, mushroom, New Year
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Vintage Photo
Looks like dressing up as an Amanita mushroom (with a gnome, of course) isn’t a new thing. Love this old photo! via A Polar Bear’s Tale
It’s the season once again
Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog, and therefore it is once more the season for winter- and Christmas-themed Amanita images. I’ll be on the lookout! (The image above was found on a webpage theorizing why it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanita muscaria, anthropomorphic, children, fly agaric, mushroom, tea, winter
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oh god, it’s alive!
(from the inimitable Cart Before the Horse) and in more elf-like form…
Santa in Wonderland
Continuing on the Santa theme… I’ll be tackling Alice in Wonderland later on, but had to post this one now: a 1943 comic book portraying Santa Claus coming to Wonderland and munching merrily on a psychedelic mushroom. Sure, it’s not … Continue reading
Good luck pigs
In Germany, amanita mushrooms are traditionally paired with pigs (and four leaf clovers, and horseshoes) as symbols of good luck, especially during the Christmas season.
Tis the season
To start this off, a seasonally appropriate image from yesteryear: From the article Mushrooms in Wonderland. Christmas/New Year is probably the best time to find amanita images in unexpected places – they’re especially prevalent in European imports.
