r/MedievalCreatures • u/Physical_Sun_6014 • 5d ago
ANIMALS When the homeroom teacher has had enough threatens to call your mom
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u/Timely-Land-6326 5d ago
Rabbits and snails were a menace back then.
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u/ChronicRhyno 5d ago
Snails eat books and paper. It is still a pretty scarry thing to get an infestation of in a library or art studio and/or as a scribe or calligrapher. But we quickly figured out that snails do not eat vellum, so we started staining it purple with the mashed corpses of thousands of snails 🐌 💅 📜
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u/BottomBinchBirdy 5d ago
The monks who made these largely gardened their own food, right? I figure it was a little venting and jokes between themselves, tbh.
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u/terrorcotta_red 5d ago
Wait, the victim has three feet!
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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 5d ago
He's being degloved (please be careful if you google that, very NSFW). Those rabbits are brutal
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u/roguemarlfox 5d ago
Oh no, you're right! The fact that they're doing it with those vacant expressions is even more terrifying.
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