It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
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@WeirdMedieval i have a few old childrens books with pictures and they also show hedgehogs with apples and stuff on their spikes.. Too cute 😍
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@WeirdMedieval British Library's medieval bestiaries (Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 45r) was animated and it's cute as heck!
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@WeirdMedieval There's a beloved Israeli children's book that has a hedgehog visiting a sick child and accidentally getting covered in mulberries. There's even a park with a bunch of sculptures of the story.
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@WeirdMedieval Similar: In ancient Europe, it was believed that the pelican would cut its breast open with its beak and feed its young with its own blood if there was not enough food, even though pelicans don’t actually do that.
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@WeirdMedieval @mart_paas As if hedgehogs could be any cuter. A favorite of Latvians, as "E" is for "ezis" in every children's "ABC". The rhyme says the hedgehog steps elegantly in his pursuit of butterflies.
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@WeirdMedieval Slovenian children's song, Ježek teka teka ( Hedgehog is running), literally describes that, hedgehog rolling around, gathering apples and pears for his children. There's also a song about a huge pear, being carried away on 🦔's spikes, wishing human children ate it instead. 😃
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@WeirdMedieval They told me the same when I was a child. I believed in this for many years. When I discovered the truth, I was so disappointed.
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@WeirdMedieval Technically true, but stories about hedgehogs transporting fruits on their back existed since the roman empire
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@WeirdMedieval I wish Twitter had only posts like this and none of the targeted ads/hate speech
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@WeirdMedieval Still believed, or told esp. in children's literature ... Might have sth. to do with hedgehogs enjoying acetifying fallen fruits and gathering as we, humans, for the same reasn do in the pubs :)
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@WeirdMedieval This will be the lie I choose to believe forever. My world view is immeasurably cuter now, thank you.
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@WeirdMedieval A little later but true,the church pd for hedgehogs caught. There was a belief that when cows laid down in the field the hedgehogs sucked their milk 🤔
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