About Me
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Andy Letcher
- A writer and a folk musician, Andy has a D.Phil in Ecology from Oxford University and a PhD in the Study of Religion from Winchester University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed 'Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom' and has published a range of articles and academic papers on subjects as diverse as psychedelics, paganism, bardism, environmental protest, fairies, shamanism and evolution. A modern day troubadour, he is the ex-frontman of Telling the Bees.
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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta... -
News that the psilly season is officially underway (with early reports that this might prove to be a bumper year) means it's a good time... -
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou... -
Owing to the vagaries of genetics I have rather limited options for playing with pogonotrophy. My facial hair grows naturally into the d'... -
At last I'm able to give you a bit more information about my new musical project, Wod , about which I've been a bit hesitant to say ... -
I'm just embarking on a new piece of research about the Liberty Cap, Psilocybe semilanceata . I hope it will be published next year. How... -
One of the great inventions of the West has to be musical notation . That something as fleeting, abstract and intangible as music can be wri...
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Shroom: ten years on
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
Popular Posts
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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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News that the psilly season is officially underway (with early reports that this might prove to be a bumper year) means it's a good time...
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I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
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I'm just embarking on a new piece of research about the Liberty Cap, Psilocybe semilanceata . I hope it will be published next year. How...
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The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that my name, and my face, are attached to a new tarot deck, the English Magic Tarot . The Fo... -
Over the Christmas period I made one of the hardest decisions I've had to face and I chose to leave both my treasured bands, Wod and Tel... -
Having a toddler has rather put paid to any all night summer solstice shenanigans. When uninterrupted sleep is the norm, the idea of willin...
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