Travel Poster Igls Tyrol Austria Innsbruck Zelger. Original ...

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Travel Poster Igls Tyrol Austria Innsbruck Zelger. Original vintage travel advertising poster for Igls, a Tyrolean village near Innsbruck, Austria. The village remains a popular skiing destination and drew international attention when Innsbruck was host city of the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1976, and the natural and artificial luge competitions were held in Igls. Features a fly agaric/ fly amanita mushroom graphic, starting out of a cave into the landscape. Although classified as poisonous, reports of human deaths resulting from A. muscaria ingestion are extremely rare. Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. The main alkaloids in Amanita muscaria are ibotenic acid and muscimol. Both have a psychoactive effect. All Amanita muscaria varieties, but in particular A. muscaria var. muscaria, are noted for their hallucinogenic properties, with the main psychoactive constituents being the neurotoxins ibotenic acid and muscimol. A local variety of the mushroom was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the indigenous peoples of Siberia and by the Sami, and has a religious significance in these cultures. There has been much speculation on possible traditional use of this mushroom as an intoxicant in other places such as the Middle East, Eurasia, North America, and Scandinavia. Printed by Tiroler Graphik Innsbruck. Good condition, tears, creasing, Country of issue: Austria, designer: Arthur Zelger , size (cm): 94x64, year of printing: 1950s.

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