Thanks for the info greenmoss, the folklore of Celtic culture seems so befitting to liberty caps for sure. Given that psilocybin works so well with sensory deprivation and can make people more sensitive to the cold it actually makes sense that it may have been combined with these kind of steam sweats.
Quote:This fungi is known for its 'Breast or Tit' like shape. The mushroom has a crooked stem with a cone shaped cap, with a nipple in the middle.
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do look like little breasts growing out the ground, and since we're trained from birth to seek the nipple i'm sure they're eye catching enough to people passing by and have been used by humans for a long time before that recorded accidental dosing in the 17th century, it's just strange that there are no recorded reports from before then and all we have is speculation, no liberty cap drawings, carvings, stained glass windows etc... the mushroom deserves a temple or two!
Although there is this one very interesting potential example of an artifact recording liberty cap shapes, the mysterious phaistos disc, believed by some to be the first ever printed script. Stoned ape theory?