Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

Paul Dormer wrote:
> The BBC are running a series at the moment called In Search of Medieval
> Britain, in which an historian is using the Gough map of Britain, drawn
> in about 1350, as a guide to travelling the country.
> 
> Last night it was the turn of Scotland, still at war with England at
> the time the map was drawn.  The map maker probably never travelled
> there, and there is little detail shown, and the shape of the coastline
> is guessed at:
> 
> http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/nnj/GoughMap_large.jpg
> 
> One thing the map does say about Scotland is that "Here there are many
> wolves".  Apparently, the medieval bestiary considered the wolf the
> beast of the devil.  What you should do if confronted by one was to
> take off all your clothes and put them in a pile.  Stand on the pile
> and knock two rocks together.  Taking off your clothes reveals your
> sins to the animal, and the sound of the rocks summons the Apostles.

More likely the animal dies laughing at the silly human :-)

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Jette Goldie
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