Interesting. I've seen this stereotype retained in cartoons
This is Czechoslovak Little Mole from 1970
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Krtek! This was on Norwegian children's TV when I was little :)
Yes! I've heard Krtek is also popular abroad :)
There's one in a Russian cartoon as well "Sack of Apples". Very interesting it's through different cultures.
When I was a kid and drew or modeled a hedgehog I always used to put fruit on it because it was depicted like that a lot :3
medieval times
when I was a kid
...hmmm
Yeah despite people knowing it's not true the depiction seems to hold in kid's media, so as a kid I picked it up as something I thought was real for a while
Either that or im a vampire or a lich =w=
I'm suspicious of your last statement in combination with your name🤨🦇
Drats foiled again! And by another vampire no less! haha :3
I didn’t know Keanu used lemmy!
When I was a kid we got hedgehogs but they died so my dad froze them, took their spines out and fed them to his snakes.
He would thaw them in hot water to heat them up to get the snakes to strike them. He just kept them frozen so they didn't go bad
I want this to be true so bad but I’m way too tired to research it right now
https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/p/hedgehogs-in-folklore-witches-familiars
Best I found, it mentions the fruit but it's a lot more modern, I think it makes it plausible for the myth to be older.
Yet B. at The Irish Penny Journal assured readers that no, they could not, after trying to see if he could make it work himself (1840: 167).
Depending on your country hedgehogs are having a very bad time right now and might go extinct next. You can research on the internet how you can slow down or stop the process.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to finding in research, but we installed a little hedgehog house in our garden and give them some (specialized) food when we see them.
Nope, there's like two fucking in my backyard right now.
This confirms my long held belief that hedgehogs would be fun at parties. They'd be like little mobile snack trays
IIRC instead, they smear shit on their backs.
Oh. Is that where the term “hedgehogging” got its origin?
I don't know what you're referring to and I'm not sure I want to google it lol
How do these little guys scurry through thick hedges and not get stuck all the time?
The spikes are all pointed backwards.