- Mushrooms will die if human eyes watch them grow.
  - Mushrooms will not grow after they have been seen and talked about.
  - The ancient Hindoos believed that those who ate mushrooms, whether springing from the ground or growing on a tree, were fully equal in guilt to the slayers of Brahmins, and the most despicable of all deadly sinners.

-- //Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World// vol. 2, p. 800

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