[Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Mon Jan 12 19:21:46 PST 2004


> I will venture out on a limb and say that there is a distinct possibility
> that it is a mistranslation.

Unfortunately, no. For reasons that seem obscure at least to me, medieval
people believed that hares changed gender as they aged. Thus their
reputation for sexual voraciousness.

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