The shaman started fortune-telling, eating fly agaric mushrooms, beating his tambourine, and fortune-telling. He is about to find out about Ekva-Pyryshcha's shenanigans" (Chernetsov, 1935, p. 77). Karjalainen K.F. cites several such cases among the Khanty, and the shamans use fly-agarics both men and women most often to pay a visit to Sanka, the Supreme Heavenly Deity (Karjalainen, p. 306-307). The hero of Scandinavian mythology, Angrim and his twelve sons, called berserkers, were characterized by incredible strength and wild rage, which has led some scholars of the Scandinavian sagas to suggest that they were in a state of fly poisoning. There are indications of Swedish soldiers' use of fly agarics until the nineteenth century.