LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1583arrow-down114
arrow-up1569arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoImagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoHe’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months 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-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoOh that’s much better.
minus-squarethanksforallthefish@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoHmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months 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-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months 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(!)
To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
Oh that’s much better.
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.”