Literal meaning of マタンゴ?


The movie _Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People_ is a very creepy 1963 movie
in which fungus causes the transformation of humans into, indeed, Mushroom
People. Google translate is no help and one search translated _" Matango"_
into "Attack of the Mushroom People" which seems wrong to me. Google just
translates it into English as _" matango"_ which is not very helpful.

The movie is based on a turn of the 20th century short story which is called
_The Voice in the Night_ and I am wondering if the original title is somehow
related to the word.

I find here: <https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Matango#Name> that the name is based
on the name of a fungus which is called "mamadango" but this might be made up.
It does make it seem less likely that the title is related to the original
short story.




The origin of the word 'matango' is mentioned in the film's pamphlet, which
refers to a real mushroom called 'mamadango'. This is a reference to the
Fukushima dialect 'mamadango', which refers to tuchiguri or tanukino-
chabukuro.




The origin of the word 'matango' is mentioned in the film's pamphlet, which
refers to a real mushroom called 'mamadango'. This is a reference to the
Fukushima dialect 'mamadango', which refers to tuchiguri or tanukino-
chabukuro.

