Surprised Eel Historian, PhDさんのイラストまとめ

@montypython

Some folks collected lots of eels in rent. And some folks not so many.

When John de Huntyngton died in 1350 an inquisition showed that he was owed (among other things) 1 & 1/2 sticks of eels annually from land he held in Ealdyng.

That's about 37 eels every year for our man.

It's said that you are what you eat...but wouldn't it be horrible if you were turned into an eel? Well...that's what happens in this scene from "The Witcher." Not doing well enough in your study of magic? Well then it's to the eels with you! /5

So @CoteDuPy asked me about traditional eel recipes, and it's been a while since I wrote about how to cook your eel. Guess it's time to fix that! Here, then, is a thread about historical eel cooking. /1

I just learned from my kids that there is a spell in Yugioh called "Hippo Carnival" that summons not 1, not 2, but 3 amazing & glamorous hippos to distract your foes and absorb all their attacks.

I wish I'd known about this earlier in the spring, during job interviews.

@EBHarrington

As if that weren't enough, in his popular 1695 travel guide to Italy, François Misson inflation these numbers, writing that the citizens of Terracina sent Monte Cassino 20,000 eels per year, in thanks to St. Benedict’s (apocryphal) intercession to break a Turkish siege.

@solveig_hanson

John More (d.1530), Thomas More' dad, famously said that picking a bride is like reaching into a bag of snakes & eels at a 7:1 ratio of snaked to eels & hoping you grabbed an eel.

This saying, credited to More, became quite popular in 16th C. London. /1

Sometimes you just can't part with your eels.

In 1285 a man named Robert de Nowers donated land in Lowick to Thorney Abbey. But while charity may being at home, but sometimes it ends at the eel trap. Robert didn't give everything; he kept 6 sticks (150 eels) a year for himself.