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A fairy ring (possibly Chlorophyllum molybdites) on a suburban lawn in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring [1] or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. [2]
In Western art, fungi have been historically connoted with negative elements, whereas Asian art and folk art are generally more favorable towards fungi. British mycologist William Delisle Hay, in his 1887 book An Elementary Text-Book of British Fungi, [1] [2] describes Western cultures as being mycophobes (exhibiting fear, loathing, or hostility towards mushrooms).
The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified ...
Mushrooms have been found in art traditions around the world, including in western and non-western works. [1] Ranging throughout those cultures, works of art that depict mushrooms can be found in ancient and contemporary times. Often, symbolic associations can also be given to the mushrooms depicted in the works of art.
The Jin dynasty Daoist scholar Ge Hong's c. 320 CE Baopuzi (Master Who Embraces Simplicity) is the earliest surviving source of information about zhi excrescences.. Based upon no longer extant texts and illustrations, Chapter 11 (仙藥; Xianyao; "Medicines of Immortality") outlines folklore and knowledge about zhi, and elucidates the wuzhi (五芝; "Five Zhi") classification system.
Pages in category "Fungi in folklore" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fairy ring
(Mormon mythology) Urim and Thummim, a set of seer stones bound in a breastplate, or by silver bows into a set of spectacles. (Mormon mythology) Lapis manalis (Stone of the Manes), was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Pluto, abode of the dead; Festus called it ostium Orci, "the gate of Orcus". The ...
Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace; Kanbo – Drought spirit; Kanedama – Money spirit; Kappa – Little people and water spirit; Kapre – Malevolent tree spirit; Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit