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For

monanotlisa and anyone who always wanted to know about mushrooms as people and various mushroom folklore bits, here some:

Mushrooms, Russia and History
Valentina Pavlovna Wasson
and R.Gordon Wasson
Pantheon Books, New York. 1957

http://www.newalexandria.org/archive/ (2 pdf files)
same here: http://www.scribd.com/zeevnaomi/d/27388928-Mushrooms-Russia-and-History

I started to look through it and it is awesome.

some more stuff found by precursory googling:
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-famous-folklore-skin-walkers-shape-shifting-monsters/
http://aarticles.net/culture-art-history/12705-soberem-gribnoe-lukoshko-v-folklore.html

I've recently discovered great photo-blog of Igor Shpilenok who is working in South Kamchatka Sanctuary and posting pictures of volcanoes and bears and outrageously cute foxes.

Here it is: http://shpilenok.livejournal.com/

If you feel awkward scrolling through text in Russian (though there are pictures in every post), you may check out his website gallery in English: http://shpilenok.ru/galleryen.html