Medieval weasels were said to signify people willing to hear the divine word without acting on it. This weasel sniffing at its Latin name is from a c1170 English bestiary. #medievalmanuscripts #medievalbeasts #weasel #weasels
the new Olympic mascots are these super cute stoats, look at them!
"Our stoats are two cheerful and easy-going teenagers, energetic, determined and strong-willed, sometimes charmingly irreverent towards adults and eager to assert their role as protagonists in the world to come," the Milano Cortina organizing committee wrote."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5621915/winter-olympics-mascots-milo-tina
#olympics #stoats #weasels #mascots #OlympicMascots
And here is more, though not just kitties (2/2).