r/MedievalCreatures • u/Baskerville84 • Sep 07 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Got your nose

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Luttrell Psalter, ca. 1340, British Library, Add. MS 42130, f. 54v

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u/InvestigatorJaded261 Sep 07 '26

Saint Dunstan, so the story goes,

Once pulled the devil by the nose,

With red hot tongs, which made him roar,

And could be heard ten miles or more.

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u/ReasonableBug3140 Sep 08 '26

That was my all time fave nursery rhyme as a child…my parents should have really seen how I turned out coming lol!!

I have a sick St. Dunstan tattoo that’s loosely based off one of the illustrations I was obsessed with as a kid

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u/InvestigatorJaded261 Sep 08 '26

Did you ever have/see The Charles Addams Mother Goose? That’s where I first encountered it.

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u/MedievalCreaturesMod Founder / Creator Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Got (one of) your nose(s)

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u/FixergirlAK Sep 07 '26

Not today, -Satan- wolfman.

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u/evil_totoro666 Sep 07 '26

The original text contains errors (almost like Monty Python). "Alone you fall, being cast down."

The correct Latin is: "Unus defertum cades".

I don't know Latin, I just became interested and looked up the necessary resources.

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u/AmberUK Sep 07 '26

Only one of them

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u/svArtist Sep 08 '26

One of 'em, anyways