I37B. Mushrooms are connected to the dead world.
Mushrooms are associated with the dead, the afterlife, evil spirits, and diseases. See motive I37.
Melanesia. Keva [a returning deceased should only eat mushrooms growing on rotten trunks]; Fiji [dalinga ni kalou (ear of spirit/ghost) 'ghost ear']: Blust 2000b: 694.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lakher [for the spirits of the dead in Athikhi, bamboo leaves are fish, large hairy caterpillars are bears, their fishing net is the big athipaso mushroom; the best mushroom is called phungsahmim ("perfume bag"]: Parry 1932:395.
Western Siberia. Keta [chasing a person, Kolbasam's daughter throws a mushroom at him, but does not get it].
Eastern Siberia. The mushroom is the trap of a cannibal giant, passers-by stick to it. Northwestern Yakuts (Deer) [Charchahaan wants to pick wood fungus from larch (it serves as a medicine); his arm, second arm, legs, forehead stick; Angaa Mogus takes him away, C. cuts through the bag, runs away, puts bark under his fur coat; AM finds him, kicks him, thinks his bones are cracking, brings it to the children, leaves himself; C. promises to make them a spoon, tells them to give them a sharp sword, cuts off their heads, puts meat on their bed cooks, digs out; AM felt that it was the meat of his blood relatives, wanted to catch C., could not stick his head into the move; C. offers to climb backwards, pierces with a hot foot; he orders from Make oars with your two hands, make a boat out of your back bones, make your ankle with a pole in the booth, a cauldron from the skull, cups from the eye sockets] Ergis 1964, No. 39:118-120; Western Yakuts (Vilyui) [at Lyybar silver boat, golden oars; someone calls him, he comes up, it's a mushroom, he kicks him, hits him, sticks, Angaa Mongus brings him to him; L. asks him to fatten him first; sends him for a knife; the owner of the knife - to the owner of the sharpener, the sharpener must be taken away by stallion, you need a rope to bridle, a rope across the river, AM falls into the water, sinks; orders his pelvic bones to become a pestle, his tibia to become a stupa]: Illarionov and others 2008, No. 15:173-177; Yakuts: Ergis 1967, No. 83 (summary of several texts, including references to archival materials) [fisherman Lyybyrda (var.: Aigyn-Taigyn or old woman Tebenekeen) , old woman Yuchei) hears a man's voice in the forest; goes and sticks to a mushroom (horse skull); Mongus picks up a fisherman and fattens him to eat him; it is impossible to slaughter a fisherman, because the knife is blunt; the fisherman sends M. to Bolona for a large knife, that to Haranay for a grindstone, and the last one for Alanay's horse to transport the stone; A. sends M. across the river for a bridle, M. drowns], 84 (no place of recording, link to archive) [smart and strong Chaarchahaan stuck to a mushroom in the forest; he was caught by Angaa Mongus, put him in his bag and went home; on the way Chaarchahaan put measles under his dress; when he got home, M. beat C., ordered his children to cook dinner with it, went hunting himself; C. made a large knife, sat the children side by side, and cut off everyone's heads. he cooked them in a large cauldron, dug a hole for himself; M. came and tasted the meat; feeling that it was the meat of his blood relatives, he wanted to catch C., but he killed him with a hot foot (icebreaker); To the dying will of M. himself, C. made oars from his hands, a boat from his body, pillars from his hips, a bowler hat from his skull]: 177; Evenks of the Baikal region [mimics those passing].
Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [mushroom - penis or ear trait].
SV Asia. Chukchi [fly agarics lead an intoxicated person to the land of the dead]; Koryaks [mushroom is the trap of a cannibal giant].
The Arctic. Eskimos Fr. Wrangel [when the Eskimos came to the trading post, they liked our food, except for dry mushrooms), which they called "damn ears"].
Subarctic. Inhalic [if you touch the fungus, you will have ulcers on your arm].
NW Coast. Bellacula [connection with the eclipse of stars].
The coast is the Plateau. Quinolt [monster wives].
Southeast USA. Saponi tutelo [a monstrous old woman judges the dead while sitting on a mushroom]; catavba [mushrooms are the food of forest dwarfs].
Big Pool. Northern paiyut [a means to ward off illness and evil spirit].
The Great Southwest. Hopi [mushrooms - maskiisi, "corpse-shade", "corpse shadow"; hopis don't eat mushrooms].
Mesoamerica Lacandons [mushrooms eat in the world of the dead]; tsotsil [if you smell mushrooms, your nose will be covered with spots and warts].
Llanos. Cuiva [mushrooms are evil spirits].
Southern Venezuela. Yanomami [the first race turned into scorpions, mushrooms, vultures].
Guiana. Mushrooms avert a hunter's luck. Varrau; lokono; kalinya.
Western Amazon. Sekoya [the mushroom grows on the forehead of a dead woman]; canelo [pervorasa turned into mushrooms]; shuar [mushrooms in the ears of a dead owl].
Montagna - Jurua. Machigenga [1) before the sun, the spirits of the dead lived with people, and mushrooms flew through the air and stuck to people; 2) the disease is a mushroom]; kashibo [the demon's corpse does not rot, but grows with mushrooms].