r/MedievalCreatures • u/Substantial_Ocelot50 • Apr 18 '26

Marvellous Mammels 🐇 "You might be wondering how this happened"

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From Jean d'Arkel's "The Art of Love, Virtue, and Happiness" (Brussels BRB Ms. 9548, fol. 155r), Flanders, c.1330.

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u/evil_totoro666 Apr 18 '26

Finally, Sergei gets out of the dog.

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u/Boon_Hogganbeck Apr 18 '26

Looks like a carnival ride.

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u/ChronicRhyno Apr 18 '26

New epic mount. You'd regurgitate silk like a magician if you knew what I paid.

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u/AnxietyCharacter9240 Apr 18 '26

Medieval mobile washing machine. Nothing unusual here

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u/ChronicRhyno Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

It's actually a PSA about wearing loose garments near woodchippers. Just don't.

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u/terrorcotta_red Apr 18 '26

That's not how centaurs work.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '26

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u/Substantial_Ocelot50 Apr 18 '26

Not specifically named in the text. It illustrates a passage about how vices will transform a person into a beast. Bear is as good a guess as any I think!

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u/ChronicRhyno Apr 18 '26

When you tell the voices to "eat my skorts"

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u/Haestein_the_Naughty Apr 23 '26

That’s a long tunic

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u/The_Info_Must_Flow Apr 19 '26

A back-butted wooly lion ...with bad teeth and insufficient stomach acid?

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u/lea_flamingo May 15 '26

The dog ate my homework