“But maybe there’s another story worth telling this season—one about a psychedelic mushroom-eating shaman from the Arctic.” That’s Matthew Salton, whose animated short film, Santa Is a ...

Maybe there’s another story worth telling this season, one about a psychedelic mushroom-eating shaman from the Arctic. “At least part of the Santa Claus image comes from Lapland.” ...

The story of Santa and his likely origins begins where ... So perhaps, long ago, one of the first shamans witnessed the reindeer’s love affair with this peculiar mushroom – as well as its ...

"Santa is a modern counterpart of a shaman, who consumed mind-altering plants and fungi to commune with the spirit world," said John Rush, an anthropologist and instructor at Sierra College in ...

Some historians argue that Santa Claus is actually a "magic" mushroom shaman, as indicated by his red and white outfit. What does any of this have to do with Christmas? Well, fly agaric mushrooms ...

"Santa is a modern counterpart of a shaman, who consumed mind-altering plants and fungi to commune with the spirit world," said John Rush, an anthropologist and instructor at Sierra College in ...

Martínez says that when he arrived in Santa Marta, his father, Mauricio Sr., a town shaman, gave him doses of traditional medicinal plants in the form of teas and liquid drops. Over the course of ...

In Santa Marta, a small village in Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous region, aging shamans are seeking to preserve and pass down knowledge of traditional medicinal plants. Village members say ...