I37E. Mushrooms are screaming. 43.44.

Wood mushrooms scream like humans.

Quinolt, squamish, menominee.

The coast is the Plateau. Quinolt: Farrand 1902, No. 14 [the girl dreams of the mighty Sepaka; she comes to his house; mushrooms hang from the rafters; when S. speaks, the mushrooms echo; they are his wives; now he has a real wife and he throws them away; a wife gives birth to a two-headed boy, then a normal girl; her five brothers come to her one by one, S. kills them; a woman throws flint into the fire; a shrapnel falls into her little daughter, she immediately gives birth to a boy; the woman pretends that she gave birth herself; Flint finds the corpses cut in half by her uncle; kills S. and a double-headed boy; he, his little mother and grandmother return to people]: 124-125; Lévi-Strauss 1976b:234 [white wood mushrooms have the same word as echo], 235 [mushrooms are Puma excrement]; squamish [woody mushrooms echo; if such a mushroom is hung in the house, it protects against slander]: Kuipers 1969:59 (quoted in Lévi-Strauss 1976b:234).

The Midwest. Menominee [mushrooms growing on pine trees scream Hohohoho at the end of February! ; used for magical purposes]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915:498.