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The magic mushroom species Psilocybe semilanceata gets its nickname from an actual, historically accurate cap. The Phrygian cap is what the magic mushroom is said to resemble. In the 18th century Phrygian caps were stuck on Liberty poles, which resemble the stem of the mushroom. The mushroom’s nickname is “the liberty cap” for this reason.

After the Second World War, the ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina visited Mexico in the year 1953 to seek out the holy magic mushrooms. This was the first of a number of trips to Mexico that eventually revealed the magic mushrooms to the whole world.