Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe
EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.
The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties....
Hmm, I wonder how they knew about the hallucinogenic properties of the local 'shrooms...
So what would Frank Frazetta have thought about that?
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| Frank Frazetta - 'Spirit of the Forest' |
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| Frank Frazetta - 'Open Wide' |
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| Frank Frazetta - Pretty Posey |
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| Frank Frazetta - 'Golden Girl' |
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