Slime Mold - in Popular Culture

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  • Traditional Finnish lore describes how malicious witches used yellow Fuligo (Finnish: paranvoi, butter of the familiar) to spoil milk.
  • Mycologist Tom Volk reports that the plasmodium of Fuligo is eaten in Mexico.
  • The computer game NetHack has Slime Mold as an edible, re-nameable fruit. This is an homage to the earlier game Rogue, which featured Slime Molds the adventurer could find and add to inventory/eat. When a slime mold was eaten, the message displayed was "My, that was a yummy Slime Mold!"
  • The giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, in the 1958 American horror/science-fiction film The Blob might be based on slime molds.
  • Norwegian black-metal band Tulus has a composition "Lycogala Epidendrum & Fuligo Septica" in their album "Pure Black Energy" (1996)
  • In The Future Is Wild, there is a futuristic slime mold called the "Slither Sucker".

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