oneunicornaway:

hollyblueagate:

favorite medieval bestiary things

• wolves and snakes will kill you if you have clothes but you’re fine if you’re ass naked because they’re scared of nude people
• ostriches eat metal and have hooves
• peacocks don’t fly often because they have ugly feet and don’t want people to see them. they scream when they wake up because of their repeated nightmares about being ugly.
• “Stags live a long time; the ones that Alexander the Great had put gold necklaces on were caught a hundred years later

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• whale mouths smell so good fish just swim right in there

• mice get pregnant from eating salt and their stomachs contain gold
• snakes are very often drawn with wings and feet and are indistinguishable from depictions of dragons
• pelicans kill their babies and then bring them back to life by cutting open their own chest and letting the babies drink the blood. every depiction of a pelican looks nothing like a pelican and shows them doing this. I have no clue what the bloodletting bird is meant to be or where they got this from.

• hyenas aren’t known for their laugh but their ability to change genders
• “

  Spiders are worms of the air”

• this drawing of a rabbit 

The pelican thing is linked to the fact its a figure of christ in a lot of literature.