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

@DrFishSG

What do you do when you can't get eels fairly? You steal them!

In 1387, for example, the abbot at Nursling Priory charged 3 local men with stealing fish from his waters, including 200 lampreys, 300 salmon, 200 trout, and 4,000 eels.

I guess they were hungry!

Winter is coming. And the eels are getting ready.

Antoine Le Grand, in 1675, wrote that eels have a natural magic sympathy with the North Wind.

I'm not actually sure what that means, but I'm guessing we're about to see Eel Wizards.

Hey @tlecaque! Look what my kid brought home from the library book sale! And before I could even get around to suggesting it to him.

It's the kids' 1st day of school. Will they learn about eels?

Eels appear sometimes in pre-modern English school books, such as the 15th C. latin reader that suggests not eating fish on rogation days. Except for dainty fish, like eel.

Eels and learning...they go hand in fin!

Octopuses also get a shout-out in the Iliad, but they're not actually fish, so...

@neilrichards365 Well...the mascot for the University of MN is the Golden Gopher, and I guess they take showers sometimes...

@pilgrimchick @KzooICMS @dr_xpi @erin_aisling

It's Friday! Do you want a story about an eel, the gluttonous wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out. Well then...

Settle in for a short thread, 'cause the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower" has just the story for you! /1