Fl#04: Mushroom Men

Beware you mushroom gatherers

Whose food in woodland grows

Beware the fungus watchers

When crossing rotten groves

 

 

The mushroom men have seen you

That fact you must assume

So take your feast and quickly leave

The watchers in the gloom

And draw across your curtains

When you are home tonight

Don’t look outside until the dawn-

For mushrooms fear the light.

Jesper’s note: So says the poem- and the mushroom men have been known to follow home those who harvest the fungi they watch over in woodland areas. However, there is no evidence that they ‘fear the light’- they are simply nocturnal.