apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails. Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.
the firste meyme
And my favorite one here
dunno, it makes sense to me. A snail is a hard whirl with sticky stuff coming out and doesn’t really look like any other animal you encounter in day to day life so I imagine they’d be pretty frightening to people whose entire understanding of the natural world is “god did it and he hates us”
1. I love this
2. There are actually three presiding theories about the snails:
riseofthemoonpigeons 