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Adding on to @JILLY's botanical drawings post, I love these weird little animals that are all over medieval european manuscripts. Like what are they even doing ... snail jousting???
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whatever they’re doing i’m in!
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Just a lil silly, not a lot.
Feb 27, 2024
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Ant "An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks." Caterpillar "A worm which, when it gets wings, is sustained by leaves and fruits." Goose "A large waterfowl proverbially noted, I know not why, for foolishness." Lion "The fiercest and most magnanimous of fourfooted beasts." Mouse "The smallest of all beasts; a little animal haunting houses and corn fields, destroyed by cats." Muskcat "The animal from which musk is got." Swine "A hog; a pig. A creature remarkable for stupidity and nastiness." Toad "An animal resembling a frog; but the frog leaps, the toad crawls: the toad is accounted venomous, I believe truly."
Sep 9, 2024
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Edward Topsell,Ā The History of Four-Footed Beasts and SerpentsĀ (London: printed by E. Cotes, 1658). I giggled.
Apr 26, 2025

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