Dwarf wine

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Arched screen with water accumulation

As dwarf wine is called rainwater , located in the bell-shaped upward curved screen of an older fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria accumulates). While younger toadstools show a hemispherical hat, older ones in the cup stage form a hollow with their hat, called a dwarf cup , dwarf cup or witch cup . Over time, the water absorbs active ingredients and colorings from the toadstool , making the yellowish-golden liquid hallucinogenicShould have effects. After taking two teaspoons, Wolfgang Bauer describes "extremely colorful" dreams the following night and an "enigmatic mystical" effect. The connection in European fairy tales between fly agaric and dwarfs provides the name for this cold water solution. Others report seeing dwarfs and gnomes who are normally invisible after ingesting it. Some exuberant reports even see dwarf wine as the drink of the Holy Grail .

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Individual evidence

  1. Teresa Friedrich: Hexenkräuter - Wissenschaft und Mythos , diploma thesis for obtaining the academic degree Magistra of Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Vienna, carried out at the Institute for Pharmacognosy, Vienna 2002.
  2. a b Hartwin Rhode (ed.): Entheogene Blätter , Edition 17, October 2013 , accessed on January 1, 2021.
  3. Christian Rätsch : Abyssal Christmas: The true story of a completely unholy festival , Riemann Verlag, 2014, limited preview in the Google book search.