SC - Vegetarianism

[Laura C Minnick]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Michelle "TJ" Brunzie wrote:

> Then too, I've heard (note: I have NO proof of this!) that geese were not
> considered meat in the MAs because they were thought to "hatch" from goose
> neck barnacles...  Of course, anyone who raised geese would surely know
> that wasn't the case!

This is actually fairly well known- a particular kind of geese near the
seashore was thought to have come from barnacles, and there was another
kind that grew from trees. Whether this was a fancy that was winked at or
truly believed, I don't know, but it turns up in a couple of places, one
of them some OE monastic documents, IIRC. Can't lay my hands on them right
now though.

'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
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'A Vaillans Coeurs Riens Impossible'
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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