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Nothing says "aphrodisiac" like a poisnonous amphibian. (source)
Is there anything on this earth, I wonder, that hasn’t been declared an aphrodisiac at some point? Wikipedia’s very limited list includes: oysters, potatoes, tomatoes, rhinoceros horns, turtle eggs, chocolates, and tiger penis. None of them have been scientifically proven to have any effect, but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to try. And we can now add to the list: Slovenian salamander brandy, which according to this page, is a "medieval method of getting in touch with your deeper sexual feelings."
I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds positively fantastic. It’s said to be so powerful, in fact, that consuming the "poisonous mucus" together with brandy makes you so hot that you’ll get sexually attracted to plants and animals and other stuff outside your phylum. Now that’s an aphrodisiac!
(Thanks Susan!)
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Poor salamanders! Have not enough species been pushed to the brink of extinction just because we need harder hard-ons? Somehow I get a picture in my head of thousands of stupid men going to Slovenia to get a hold of this…poor creatures…both them and the salamanders;o)
of the two I feel far sorrier for the Slovenian salamender. To judge
by the beauty of the one portrayed here, they are far more attractive
than a lot of the male humans suffering from ED!
Pity they should have to die for the fat the old the and the bald who think they have some God given right to have sex!Instead
of an erection producing/enhancement drug, it would be a far greater
service to humanity to produce a drug that freed people from the
torments of their inappropriately active libidos and or egos!
Uhm. Lol?
I really like the animal with its yellow spots and sticky skin. It’s
fun to watch it, when it "walks". It’s even funnier when it falls on
its back and tries to turn around again. Almost like turtles, but it’s
easier for them to get back on their feet…I always found them in the
woods, when i was visiting my "plants"…oops, did i go too far?!
I would not consider drinking this a good idea. Slovenian
salamanders are poisonous reptiles. Let me just say it can kill a dog
if bitten.
I would guess that drinking a stuff with salamander in it, would cause
severe hallucinations. Hence, you get in love with trees etc.
To all of those, who feel sorry for the animal. Stop it. There is many
more people dying at the very second on earth and I don’t see you moan
about it. Has it really come that far, that we are immune to human
death, but are concerned to the animals on the lower side of food chain?
It really is crazy, and I should repeat that I’ve never heard of it before, so perhaps the whole thing is entirely fictitious. (Although it doesn’t sound far-fetched to me at all.)Has anyone ever heard of this?
Someone: You try to appear as a warmheared lover of humans but instead, to me, you come across as very,very coldhearted. Does one thing have to exclude the other???? Can a person not care for all animals, including humans?Trying to solv the problems facing our planet and all it´s creatures will only help humanity.I urge you to read more about the pligh of the amphibians. A pligh that is very much acute. You must have really stuck your head in the sand if you have not heard or read about this. The amphibians are going extinct in a rate never seen before. Their demise is a clear message that something is seriously wrong….caring for salamanders can be an indicator that you care for the whole picture.
I read an article about "Moceradovec" (mocerad = salamander) in Mladina many moons ago. Written by Blaz Ogorevc (mentioned on the page linked above, but misspelled as Blaza Ogorevca). Not sure whether the article was a product of writer’s vivid imagination or there was some truth behind.
Well, salamander brandy or "moÄ?eradovec" is a well known element in rural Slovenia. The reason its effects remain unproven is mostly due to the facts that would-be scientists who have actually tried the brandy became stiff-drunk, thus being unable to do any actual research - save having a close-up and continous look at contents of one’s stomack (continuous throwing up is not uncommon with this sort of home-made brandy). The haluciogenic effects of MoÄ?eradovec are also unproven, but entirely possible, given the experience many people had with "Å marnica" - an alcoholic beverage with dangerously high contents of methanole.When speaking of MoÄ?eradovec, think absynthe to the tenth degree. Also, if memory serves (altough that particular night remains shrouded in a veil of mystery and unexplained stains on my clothing:)) - the best expamples of tequila feature a worm in the bottle.
…given the experience many people had with "Å marnica" - an alcoholic beverage with dangerously high contents of methanole… i’m
joke!
from haloze, and this "alcoholic bevarage" called "Å marnica" is wine
(for foreigners reading this). i had my experience with Å¡marnica
and i never halucinated. It’s a fairy tale…Just like it’s a fairy
tale that the children in Haloze after our mothers stop breast-feeding
them, start to drink Å¡marnica and that this is the reason in Haloze
people run around with hatchets in their hands and look like
lunatics…;) But…why am i writing this? Pengovsky, the slovenian
wine-cellar poet, knows that for sure
as is befitting to a semi-mithycal drink such as this, it’s side
- brandy is poured over the body of the animal into a bottle. the
as is true with many poisons, a lot
effects have different attributed qualities. i never heard it’d be an
aphrodiziac, but i did hear it was very halucinogenic. to the concerned
animal lovers out there, the salamander is not really killed in the
process of producing this broth (although he does get severly drunk
salamander’s skin gets irritated and goes into natural defense mode and
- it starts oozing out poison (i’m sure mother nature didn’t have this
kind of misuse in mind, though
of it will kill you, but only a little will get you high (our
grandfathers knew best - the infamous Å¡marnica wine is one example of
this, another is the all natural way off getting high with the severly
poisonous volÄ?je jagode berries). the whole thing is not unlike the
ordeal with those mexican toads.i saw this concoction once and
only once in my life. unfortunately, i didn’t drink any. it was quite
some years ago, on one of the earlier student arenas in the rožna
dolina dorms, before it turned into the student-mass-party-rip-off-ium
it is today. there were presentation booths for student clubs from
different parts of slovenia, and they pretty much all featured a local
variety of booze and some munchies to go with it. so i had cvicek
with the dolenjci, teran and pršut with the primorci, heineken beer
with the velenje group (don’t ask), and then there was this booth where
they had one liter of an under-the-counter salamander brandy. it looked
like nothing more than a bottle of brandy with a sickly greenish hue.
they only offered it to people they knew, and i knew somebody at the
booth. that was the first time i even heard of it, and i refused,
because i had way too much to drink by then. also, just minutes
earlier, guys from kocevje gave me a light reddish brandy, called
bear’s blood. of course there was no bear blood in it, i had a long and quite unnecessary
discussion about this with the guy in a bear suit peddlig this stuff.
so when i was hit with salamander brandy just minutes later i somehow,
by some strange drunken analogy assumed that this must also have no
actual connection with salamanders. had i known then what i know now, i
would have had a shot. just for the experience, if nothing else.
@someboby: Bad wording on my part. Smarnica is not halucinogenic per se, but AFAIK it is dangerous when drunk in excess (methanol can cause blindness). It also intoxicates much faster that ordinary wine. But I might be wrong. I’ve never heard stories about youngsters from Haloze running around with hatchets… But it is an amusing story
I’m a strong believer in Darwinism, so, if it takes the death of one
salamander to kill off a few idiots who will thus be prevented from
spreading their seed amongst us thus further continuing their unique
stupidity, I say, with a tear shed for the poor salamander, that it is
worth it.
Jesus.
What’s wrong with regular plum brady? You keep all the good aspects of it, like the hallucinatory effect and some local drunks swear it does things to your libido as well. And then there’s an added bonus of not having a lizard in your bottle. Always a plus.
WTF! Where do you find this stuff anyway, Michael?I wonder how come nobody ever heard of it. I mean something that "will make you so hot that you’ll get sexually attracted to plants and animals and other stuff outside your phylum" usually doesn’t take long to become an urban legend. From the description in the link I’d guess the stuff is from around Å kofja Loka. Hhhm … maybe I’ll make a stop there sometimes.
This brandy is made with salamnder teen tears which has many halucyogens. Salamndrr put up the pot for cooking brandy and tears fall in the pot. Later in process of cooking alcohol and halucynogens come through fridge into the bottl. And you dont neet to put salamnder into bottle.
From the description in the link I’d guess the stuff is from around Å kofja Loka. Hhhm … maybe I’ll make a stop there sometimes. It appears to originate from those god forsaken villages in Polhograjski Dolomiti, just a stone’s throw away from Ljubljana.
Lozar, Irena Macek. Amphibian toxins and the salamander drink. Farmacevtski Vestnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia) (2003), 54(4), 719-725In case anybody wanted to actually know what’s in the drink. Some amphibians secrete toxins that can be hallucinogenic to humans. Remember The Frog Prince? Yeah, the princess was hallucinating after licking (kissing) the frog. What a crackhead.
@crni, the problem is that these idiots gain the ability to ’spread
their seed’ whether by placebo effect or by objective results before it
makes them have the cool hallucinations and they die, I’d be on board
with your argument if it actually knocked off the pathetic idiots FIRST.
Amphibians getting exctinct? That’s just the sign, that they are failing to adopt to the new environment quickly enough. Happens all the time. Could happen to humans too… ;)
It´s actually because there is a fungus ,spread by humans, killing them. That it at least the most probable cause. In combination with fragmentation or destruction of habitat and pollution. They are going fast. One third of all amphibian species are on the brink with populations disappearing in a blink. So you see, it´s gotten to the point were scientists are flipping coins about which species to try to save and which species to give up on at once. I think it´s tragic.