Turtle Mushroom by polterbyte

Fractal • Flowers/Plants • posted on Sep 24, 2008

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Description

When the Mapinguari gets old, it will delve even deeper in the Amazon jungle, looking for a female leopard without cubs. The old Mapinguari will follow the leopard around for twelve days, hunting and eating everything around her, driving it ever hungrier. By the sunset of the twelfth day, the old and satisfied Mapinguari will call the famished leopard's attention and lead her to the nearest river shore. When the Mapinguari gets there, it will sit calmly by the river and let the hungry leopard attack. After the leopard is done eating the old Mapinguari, she will leave its carcass half buried in the sand. The small and very fast river turtles will, then, come and feast on the carcass until almost all of it is gone. As the remaining flesh gets scarce, the turtles start to leave, and the last remaining one will lay an egg withing the dead Mapinguari's jaws. This egg won't hatch, of course, and will rot in the sun, rain and mud for several weeks. Finally, by the next clear crescent moon night, the rarest of mushrooms will blossom from the rotten egg: the Turtle Mushroom. It is as hallucinogenic as it is deadly. It is said that if a person eats this mushroom, he or she will hear the river tell the saddest and most beautiful of the jungle's tales, and then will die completely insane.