Talk:Toadstool

Is the word toadstool used in any folk tales? -Krazie 101 02:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Not sure about the very word, the concept for sure. Would it make a difference if they call it mushroom or toadstool there? (Just asking.) Edwing 09:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Look at what this link has got....... http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/060227sh_shouts Before they started collecting art, my parents bought some pretty great things, the best being a concrete lawn ornament they picked up in the early nineteen-sixties. It’s a toadstool, maybe three feet tall, with a red spotted cap and a benevolent little troll relaxing at its base. My father placed it just beyond the patio in our back yard, and what struck my sisters and me then, and still does, is the troll’s expression of complete acceptance. Others might cry or get bent out of shape when their personal tastes are denounced and ridiculed, but not him. Icicles hanging off his beard, slugs cleaving to the tops of his pointed shoes: “Oh, well,” he seems to say. “These things happen.”

"German" word todstuhl
Another explanation comes from the German translation of tod-stuhl, literally, "death-chair," referring to the shape of the fruiting body and also to the slow, agonizing death from mushroom poisoning for those who eat it.

Actually, no. I'd call this exo-folk etymology... One thing about this is that I (being a native speaker of German) feel this very word would have been constructed differently, possibly Todesstuhl. Todstuhl sounds to me like wash machine (instead of washing machine) sounds to an English speaker. But the more important argument is that there never was a word Todstuhl in German. So it's just some English speaker's fantasy and for the first, I'm removing it. Feel free to insert it again if you can back it up by sources. Cheers, Edwing 09:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

redirect to mushrom
I found nothing different here that wasn't already under mushroom in more detail, and therefore have redirected the link to mushroom.Heliocybe 18:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * What about Toadstool the Nintendo character? I think there should be a disambiguation page.  I'm not sure how to do that myself though :) Eleusinian 03:51, 8 September 2007 (UTC)