“ – BUT THERE WAS A CASE!” (tales from experienced mushroom pickers) Hunting and fishing stories, as a genre from the arsenal of Baron Munchausen, are popular everywhere. Mushroom tales are less known. Why exactly? Of course, collecting forest gifts is a very prosaic, rather monotonous activity, deservedly called quiet hunting. However, mushroom pickers sometimes get into such troubles that you just have to hold on! Here are a few stories heard in the company of experienced mushroom pickers on one of the long winter evenings, when the next season was still so far away...