Quote Originally Posted by Watchman

I rather doubt if it was that pesky one. By what I know of it the hallucinogenic states it brought tended to be rather disabling, and people busy scampering around on all fours, drooling a lot and with most of their higher brain functions turned off don't really sound like prime shock trooper material. Didn't keep those afflicted from thinking they had committed all kinds of horrible deeds in their delirium of course, and it looked pretty darn disturbing, and given how these stories tended to grow in telling...
Actually, that fungi also caused bestial behavior and imagine if they found a way to make it only cause bestial behavior and remove the allucinations and inability to move. If you read the suposed encounters with "werewolves" they talk about them fighting with wounds that would kill a normal men... it's like you said, mother nature has a miriad of ways to make us feel invulnerable. They only needed one. I talked about that particular fungi as an example and, cause more "recent" reports add up to it.

Cheers...