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GORDON WASSON  \nVOLUME I  \nPANTHEON BOOKS • NEW YORK  \nCOPYRIGHT © 1957 BY R. GORDON WASSON  \nMANUFACTURED IN ITALY FOR THE AUTHORS AND PANTHEON BOOKS INC. 333, SIXTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 14, N . Y .  \n[www.NewAlexandria.org/](www.NewAlexandria.org/)[ ](www.NewAlexandria.org/)archive  \nCONTENTS  \nLIST OF PLATES VII  \nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT XIII  \nPREFACE XVII  \nVOLUME I  \nI. MUSHROOMS AND THE RUSSIANS 3  \nII. MUSHROOMS AND THE ENGLISH 19  \nIII. MUSHROOMS AND HISTORY 37  \nIV. MUSHROOMS FOR MURDERERS 47  \nV. THE RIDDLE OF THE TOAD AND OTHER SECRETS  \nMUSHROOMIC 65  \n1. The Venomous Toad 66  \n2. Basques and Slovaks 77  \n3. The Cripple, the Toad, and the Devil's Bread 80  \n4. The 'Pogge Cluster 92  \n5. Puff balls, Filth, and Vermin 97  \n6. The Sponge Cluster 105  \n7. Punk, Fire, and Love 112  \n8. The Gourd Cluster 127  \n9. From 'Panggo' to 'Pupik' 138  \n10. Mucus, Mushrooms, and Love 145  \n11. The Secrets of the Truffle 166  \n12. 'Gripau' and 'Crib' 185  \n13. The Flies in the Amanita 190  \nCONTENTS  \nVOLUME II  \nV. THE RIDDLE OF THE TOAD AND OTHER SECRETS MUSHROOMIC (CONTINUED)  \n14. Teo-Nandcatl: the Sacred Mushrooms of the Nahua 215  \n15. Teo-Nandcatl: the Mushroom Agape 287  \n16. The Divine Mushroom: Archeological Clues in the Valley of Mexico 322  \n17. 'Gama no Koshikake and 'Hegba Mboddo' 330  \n18. The Anatomy of Mycophobia 335  \n19. Mushrooms in Art 351  \n20. Unscientific Nomenclature 364  \nVale 374  \nBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 381  \nAPPENDIX I:  \nMushrooms in Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina 391  \nAPPENDIX II:  \nAksakov's 'Remarks and Observations of a Mushroom Hunter' 394  \nAPPENDIX III:  \nLeuba's 'Hymn to the Morel' 400  \nAPPENDIX IV:  \nHallucinogenic Mushrooms: Early Mexican Sources 404  \nINDEX OF FUNGAL METAPHORS AND SEMANTIC ASSOCIATIONS 411  \nINDEX OF MUSHROOM NAMES 414  \nINDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES 421  \nLIST OF PLATES  \nVOLUME I  \nJEAN-HENRI FABRE. Coprinus nycthemerus Fr. Title-page  \nI. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Boletus edulis Fr. ex Bull. 4  \nii. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Coprinus comatus Fr. ex Mull. 4  \nin. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Clathrus cancellatus Lin. ex Tournef. 12  \niv. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Collybia fusipes Fr. ex Bull. 16  \nv. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. The Mushroom Girl. By courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Mass.). 22  \nvi. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Arrnillariella mellea (Fr. ex Vahl) Pat. 36  \nvn. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Rhodopaxillus nudus (Fr. ex Bull.) R. Maire . 40  \nvm. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Boletus duriusculus Kalchbr. 48  \nix. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Amanita csesarea Fr. ex Scop. 56  \nx. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Amanita phalloides Fr. 60  \nxi. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Danse Macabre: Amanita verna Fr. ex Bull. 60  \nxn . HIERONYMUS BOSCH. The Last Judgment. Detail: Spitting toad. By courtesy of the Bayerische Staatsgemdldesammlungen, Munich. 70  \nxni. HIERONYMUS BOSCH. The Seven Deadly Sins. Detail: Superbia. By courtesy of the Prado Museum, Madrid. 78  \nxiv . Conversion of Clovis . Tapestry in the Musee de Reims showing King Clovis in the battle of Tolbiac, his instruction in Christian doctrine by St. Remi, and his baptism. Woven in 1531. By courtesy of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Paris. 86  \nxv HIERONYMUS BOSCH. The Hay Wain. Central Panel. By courtesy of the Prado Museum, Madrid. 88  \nxvi. HIERONYMUS BOSCH. The Hay Wain. Detail. By courtesy of the Prado Museum, Madrid. 88  \nxvn . HIERONYMUS BOSCH . The Hay Wain. Detail: Boletus. By courtesy of the Prado Museum, Madrid. 88  \nxvni. JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Boletus Satanas Lenz. 92  \nxix . JEAN-HENRI FABRE. Lycoperdon furfuraceum Pers. ex Schaeff. 100  \nLIST OF PLATES  \nxx. Napoleonic caricature. By courtesy of Frank Altschul, Esq., Overbrook Farm, Stamford, Conn. 100  \nxxi. Etruscan Mirror . Ixion on his wheel. By courtesy of the British Museum, London. 114  \nxxn. Fomes ofGcinalis. Miniature from a loth century Byzantine codex (No. 652)  \nof Dioscorides. 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