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PeterBobsonOver9000 wrote: Dr Frankus wrote: Nope, for the drugs, they belived Odin worked them in to a Battle-frenzy Some scholars propose that certain examples of berserker rage had been induced voluntarily by the consumption of  drugs such as the  hallucinogenic  mushroom  Amanita muscaria[23] [25] [26]  or massive amounts of  alcohol. [27]  While such practices would fit in with  ritual usages, other explanations for the berserker's madness have been put forward, including self-induced  hysteria,  epilepsy,  mental illness, or  genetics. Where did you get the 'Odin' part? Human, I'm talking about the original Berserkírs, the Medeival Scandinavian ones. Didn't they also use those mushrooms, but in a ritual before the battle? And then they believed Odin gave them strength, hence they wore Bearhides, as that had somethign to do with Odin.