But it turns out pickles aren’t the only accessories that bring good fortune: The Christmas mushroom may have equally positive powers. Curious? We were, too! Known in German as glcklicher pilz ...

On a recent holiday shopping trip with my family, I noticed Christmas mushrooms on everything, from throw pillows to holiday ribbons. After I commented on how odd it seemed, my husband pulled out ...

Before Sundblom’s illustrations ... the traditional symbol of chimney sweeps was a fly agaric mushroom — and many early Christmas cards featured chimney sweeps with fly agarics, though ...

One theory purports Santa is a Sámi shaman. The Sámi are the indigenous people of Sápmi (referred to as Lapland by outsiders ), in northern Scandinavia. The story goes like this: Once upon a ...

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 ...

It would seem as if scholars were able to explain mostly every Christmas tradition with the shamans and magic mushrooms, but were careful to point out that there is no known direct link between ...