Amanita muscaria mushrooms are on Christmas cards & New Year cards all across the globe as a symbol of prosperity to its reader. The ethnobotanist Jonathan Ott has suggested that the idea of Santa Claus & custom of hanging stockings over the hearth is largely based on the Amanita muscaria mushroom itself. With Santa Claus's white and red color scheme of his suit, his opinion is that Santa Claus's suit is related to the mushroom. He also sees similarities with flying reindeer: reindeer had been noted to eat the fly agaric & run around while appearing to be under the influence a short period afterwords. American ethnopharmacologist Scott Hajicek-Dobberstein, researching feasible links between religious beliefs & the mushroom, remarks, "If Santa Claus had but one eye [like Odin], or if magic urine had been an element of his legend, his connection to the Amanita muscaria would be much simpler to accept."
The connection was, later on, published in an article in the journal of The Sunday Times in the year of 1980, & The New Scientist six years later. Historian Ronald Hutton has since argued the connection; he suggested reindeer spirits were not in Siberian mythology, shamans didn't journey by sleigh. They also did not wear red & white, or climb out of smoke holes in roofs. Soon after, American's mindfulness of Siberian shamanism postdated the appearance of the folklore around Santa.
The connection was, later on, published in an article in the journal of The Sunday Times in the year of 1980, & The New Scientist six years later. Historian Ronald Hutton has since argued the connection; he suggested reindeer spirits were not in Siberian mythology, shamans didn't journey by sleigh. They also did not wear red & white, or climb out of smoke holes in roofs. Soon after, American's mindfulness of Siberian shamanism postdated the appearance of the folklore around Santa.
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