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

@cakrolik @medievalhistory @tlecaque @salu1292 This is me, now. I’m just a twitter eel.

So you've decided to pay your rent in medieval eels. But how do you count them?

Eels were counted in units called sticks, w/ 25 eels to a stick. The term "stick" likely comes from the number of eels you can smoke on a stick at one time.

10 sticks of eels was called a bind.1/2

@jondcpowell @gr8writingtips

@grenouille781 All the other sea monsters are jealous.

Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what?

Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well!

In 1654, in a discussion of breaking asylum in ancient temples, Francis Rous used the same phrase.

He wrote that, once granted asylum, a person was safe forever "unlesse they made a fire, and burnt him out of the hole, as we use to do eeles."

Or...you know...priests. 3/4

Writing about the siege of Catholics at Basing House in 1645, the Mercurius Britannicus wrote that: "Colonel D’Albier last week tried to smoake him out with Straw, just as they use to serve eeles in old walles."

But...eels don't live in walls! Whatever could this mean? 2/4

@liz_lizanderson

@grenouille781

Friends...it's my birthday today! I'm 45...so maybe 1/4 of the way through my life (if I'm estimating right).

So. What are some stupid things I can do today?