Indigenous traditions across North America, Celtic folklore across the British Isles, and frankly cultures practically everywhere else in the world—from the West African nation of Senegal to China to Papua New Guinea—all have stories about fairy-like little people. And now, scientists have linked two of those folk legends to a single species of a psychoactive mushroom.
Researchers at the University of Utah have sequenced DNA from the mushroom species Lanmaoa asiatica , isolated from both southwest China and a remote region of the Philippines, confirming that this fungus induces hallucinations that can manifest dozens or even hundreds of tiny…
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