While the Shiitake Mushrooms can be toxic

You may be familiar with Amanita from depictions in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers video games and in Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia, according to the Irish Independent.

Fly agaric contains alkaloids that can cause hallucinations when ingested. But the also make some people quite sick. While the mushrooms can be toxic when ingested raw, native Arctic peoples have been known to drink the urine of another person (or even a reindeer) that consumed fly agaric. The idea is that the liver gets rid of many of the toxic substances but leaves some of the other psychoactive substances behind.