Odd lot the Japanese

From: Nick Eden <pheasant_at_cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 11:32 GMT

In-Reply-To: <199502171716.MAA02061_at_hops.wharton.upenn.edu>
> About poor rabbits. They have long ears, you know. And some
> corrupted (yes, this is real corruption!) monks said, seeing
> rabbits' ears, "Hey, they have wings! They must be birds!"
> And they began to eat rabbits as birds. Poor rabbits!

I have heard it said that the beast we westerners think of as the mountain goat was at one point renamed the mountain whale. The nobles enjoyed hunting the things you see, and while they were allowed to fish, they weren't allowed to hunt animals.

Probably apocraphal

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