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The Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales
by Carl A.P. Ruck; Blaise Daniel Staples; Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran; Mark Alwin Hoffman
from Carolina Academic Press

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• Entertaining, but are mushrooms really the key to *everything*?
  This book was passed on to me by a friend who knows I have interest in the now largely-ignored issue of survivals in folklore and in religious studies (my doctoral work was in this area). The premise is interesting enough: that folkloric materials contain remnants of shamanic ritual. Given the work done on figures such as the Hungarian táltos, there is ample reason to accept this general premise.
  Unfortunately, Ruck's book is not about the survival of shamanic traces in fairytales. Rather (as... more info

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  I'm wondering whether this book underestimates how often visionary plants were used as the Eucharist and understood to be the Eucharist, throughout the history of mainstream Christian practice.
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