pendwick:

youcantseebutimmakingaface:

youcantseebutimmakingaface:

Now, not everybody knows this, but occasionally a hen chicken will develop benign tumors on her ovaries. These can make the poor girl start developing secondary male sex characteristics, like a bigger comb and wattle, tail feathers, spurs, and crowing, all while she still lays eggs.

Now, you also might not know that broody hens will try to hatch anything vaguely egg-like, from rocks and golf balls, to another animal’s eggs.

Thirdly, snakes REALLY like barns for being warm, full of delicious rats, and easy to hide in.

So picture if you will, Year of Our Lord 1350, and some poor peasant in the middle of Hell, Europe has just woken up to all his friends being dead of the plague and a rooster very excitedly showing off their weird noodle children.

Take into account poor Wiglaf here is superstitious, mostly uneducated, and full of malnutrition and anxiety, and you can see how things like cockatrices, basilisks, and people burning various creatures at the stake for being fucking horrifying occurred.

Everything was fucking horrifying, and sometimes it got out of hand.

@simonalkenmayer @curlyhumility @vampireapologist @thehornedwitch @theangriestlittleunicorn

I’m absolutely delighted this has taken off again

@sinistergouache