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myth: if a beaver finds itself pursued by a hunting party, it will chew off its own testicles and leave them behind in self-defense!

beavers' testicles were believed to have medicinal properties, which led to the widespread hunting of them in europe specifically for their testes

*sad lute noises*

strange creature drinking wine, france, 15th century

@Jewish_CareBear made the two sneer together ahhhh

@guskamp used my alt text and the AI art generator DALL-E to make these incredible renditions - i'll add the exact same alt text to the original images below so you can see what the AI was basing its output on - so cool!!

emo lion, france, 14th century

extremely rotund hedgehog, italy, 14th century

source: aquarelle von säugetieren, vögeln, insekten und pflanzen samt deutschen legenden ("watercolours of mammals, birds, insects, and plants together with german legends")

zentralbibliothek zürich (central library of zürich) ms rh hist 161 page 86

https://t.co/P5fXfq3lWV

man and bear hugging, germany, 16th century

monk and his cat reading together, france, 13th century