Aminita plus christian-pagan belief. Yeah. You can't discount the St. Nicolaus part, but those Lapplander beliefs about the mushrooms definitely snuck in. Red and white, with the flying reindeer, yeah http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3136.html
oh ya flying raindeer. so the rain deer in siberia eat some fungus.so when the siberian people have there gatherings they drink a mushroom tea/beer,when they go outside to piss the deer gather and eat the yellow snow,,hence flying raindeer. theres more than that to it but thats the jist..love,love
i live in sweden and in older houses their often lots of things with amanitas on them like table cloths, candles and al kinds of stuff. in my own house we have this miniature house with a light in it and outside the house theres santa, elfs, snow and mushrooms... mushrooms seem realy popular here up north.
