There’s some others, like sea serpents and the Western concept of dragons as giant flying lizards. A dragon is literally the symbol of Wales (okay, a wyvern if you want to be technical about it, but whatever).
There’s also a Baltic cult of worshipping wood snakes. And a fairy tale about one being the king of the sea.
(okay, a wyvern if you want to be technical about it, but whatever)
Nah that’s a dragon. They hadn’t invented D&D yet.
For what it’s worth, the word goes back to the 17th century. But Wikipedia also calls them a type of dragon, so 🤷.
And medieval European books have knights fighting giant snails. Whatever could it mean?
The reptilians clearly killed off all the giant snails in Europe after the knights tried to fight them while mounted on them.
I can’t explain the rabbits though.
Can you explain dicks on trees, tho?
Have you never seen a penis willow before? I mean I assume you’ve heard of pussy willows.
Ahhh, so that’s the field where upon mine fucks grow! It is no longer baren.
They don’t grow naturally like that. They’re grafted on, like a fruit tree that has apples, pears and plums. Mostly plums.
Honestly though, what do those pictures mean? Just bored monks or is there a story behind them?
Bored monks, most of the time. Just image search “weird medieval illumination” for all sorts of weird shit on books from 1100~1400
It is in fact a reference to the argonian maid but government don’t want you to know!
It’s just an Argonian.
Not even a maid that polishes spears. Such sad :(
They were so close, but it was actually amphibians.
The Secret of the Ooze
Reptilian? It has clearly visible gills and fins, and looks distinctly like a fish.
I see a Sleestak. The slowest, least scary monster in all media. And this one is a monk!
not really
