There’s a documentary that posits the monks who were tasked with writting all the shit down had personal battles with snails who’d eat the manuscripts. I guess the books/pages were shellacked with stuff that would attract them. The monks then turned it into a meme and drew them in the margins and depicting fights like they were dragons.
They’re a plague on gardens. It might be a metaphorical relic of an age before modern pesticides.
Edit: Sorry, I know this isn’t funny, but I’ve also wondered about this odd phenomenon, too, and this just occurred to me.
There’s a documentary that posits the monks who were tasked with writting all the shit down had personal battles with snails who’d eat the manuscripts. I guess the books/pages were shellacked with stuff that would attract them. The monks then turned it into a meme and drew them in the margins and depicting fights like they were dragons.
Exactly. Any gardener knows snails are deadly. Even in our age!