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minus-squareRandom_Character_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoThere has to be something similar in nordics. Old pagan beliefs are jam packed with little people.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoI mean, there are a number of cases in mythologies where you can find common elements. I’d buy that in some cases, there might be common elements causing it, but I don’t think that it’d need to be a common hallucinogen. Off-the-cuff, some examples: Dragons “Hybrid” animals that are a conglomeration of different animals. Ghosts Mermaids. House spirits Sun gods
minus-squareandallthat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoGargamel, The Movie. An old man living alone with his cat is slowly driven to madness by the soup of mushrooms he always boils in his cauldron.
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
minus-squareRandom_Character_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoVery common, can certainly get you fucked up and destroy your internal organs, but no cases that would have reported seeing little people.
minus-squarediscocactus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSome native American tribes too. Apache for example.
There has to be something similar in nordics. Old pagan beliefs are jam packed with little people.
I mean, there are a number of cases in mythologies where you can find common elements. I’d buy that in some cases, there might be common elements causing it, but I don’t think that it’d need to be a common hallucinogen.
Off-the-cuff, some examples:
Dragons
“Hybrid” animals that are a conglomeration of different animals.
Ghosts
Mermaids.
House spirits
Sun gods
Also, the Smurfs
Gargamel, The Movie. An old man living alone with his cat is slowly driven to madness by the soup of mushrooms he always boils in his cauldron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
Very common, can certainly get you fucked up and destroy your internal organs, but no cases that would have reported seeing little people.
Some native American tribes too. Apache for example.