{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "favorite medieval bestiary things\n wolves and snakes will kill you if you have clothes but you\u2019re fine if you\u2019re ass naked...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178581160426/", "html": "<p><a href=\"http://hollyblueagate.tumblr.com/post/178465112841/favorite-medieval-bestiary-things-wolves-and\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">hollyblueagate</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>favorite medieval bestiary things</p>\n<ul><li>wolves and snakes will kill you if you have clothes but you\u2019re fine if you\u2019re ass naked because they\u2019re scared of nude people<br/></li>\n<li>ostriches eat metal and have hooves</li>\n<li>peacocks don\u2019t fly often because they have ugly feet and don\u2019t want people to see them. they scream when they wake up because of their repeated nightmares about being ugly.</li>\n<li>\u201cStags live a long time; the ones that Alexander the Great had put gold necklaces on were caught a hundred years later\n\n\u201c<br/></li>\n<li>whale mouths smell so good fish just swim right in there</li>\n<li><br/></li>\n</ul><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"417\" data-orig-width=\"499\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pfn29sqLNL1rcojp8_1280_bf73e522251f.png\" data-orig-height=\"417\" data-orig-width=\"499\"/></figure><ul><li>mice get pregnant from eating salt and their stomachs contain gold</li>\n<li>snakes are very often drawn with wings and feet and are indistinguishable from depictions of dragons</li>\n<li>pelicans kill their babies and then bring them back to life by cutting open their own chest and letting the babies drink the blood. every depiction of a pelican looks nothing like a pelican and shows them doing this. I have no clue what the bloodletting bird is meant to be or where they got this from.<br/></li>\n</ul><figure data-orig-width=\"473\" data-orig-height=\"272\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pfn1iq9U4b1rcojp8_1280_fd62b382cb76.png\" data-orig-width=\"473\" data-orig-height=\"272\"/></figure><ul><li>hyenas aren\u2019t known for their laugh but their ability to change genders</li>\n<li>\u201c\n\nSpiders are worms of the air\u201d<br/></li>\n<li>this drawing of a rabbit\u00a0<br/></li>\n</ul><figure data-orig-width=\"491\" data-orig-height=\"366\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pfn259s95K1rcojp8_1280_5b92d0064d3d.png\" data-orig-width=\"491\" data-orig-height=\"366\"/></figure></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_pfn29sqLNL1rcojp8_1280_bf73e522251f.png", "thumbnail_width": 499, "thumbnail_height": 417}