Lopen's Left Arm to Today I [email protected]English • 2 years agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1567cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1567external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopen's Left Arm to Today I [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareThe BartolinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoImagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agoHe’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
minus-squareThe BartolinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years ago he’s peeling the skin off his foot To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoHmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoOoh, that’s a good point! Origins apparently go back to 600 BC: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/rabbits-foot-considered-lucky/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years ago“Did you get a good look at the suspects?” “Not really. But fortunately my manuscript illustrator was there.”
Imagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
He’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
Oh that’s much better.
To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
Hmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
Ooh, that’s a good point!
Origins apparently go back to 600 BC:
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/rabbits-foot-considered-lucky/
“Did you get a good look at the suspects?”
“Not really. But fortunately my manuscript illustrator was there.”