Medieval Illumination6d ago
Wildlife of #Ethiopia. Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485. BnF, Français 22971, fol. 20r.
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Show threadFardels Bear5d ago

@medieval_illuminations

Anthropophagi! Good to see where Shakespeare got the idea from.

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.

Show threadBodhipaksa
@riggbeck @medieval_illuminations Wasn’t all that stuff in Herodotus?
Jun 7 at 10:31amWeb
Show threadFardels Bear5d ago

@bodhipaksa @medieval_illuminations

Probably. I only know them from Shakespeare. Cryptozoology is eternally fascinating. I always preferred the strange creatures on The X-Files to the boring aliens. Eugene Tooms is my all-time favourite, slithering through drainpipes and making nests of paper in the walls.

Show threadVirginicus5d ago
@riggbeck @bodhipaksa @medieval_illuminations Old Will couldn’t think of a rhyme for “blemmye”.