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[tree_and_leaf]

I have just read two seperate thirteenth century Middle High German poems which refer to Mary as the weasel who bore the ermine (Christ) who killed the snake (Satan). I can't help thinking a mongoose would be somehow more impressive. Worryingly, I also find myself musing over an exegesis of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi as Christian allegory (only I can't work out where to fit in Darzi - John the Baptist? - or Chundra, who never came out into the corner of the room).

My brain is evidently on crack. Incense-scented crack. Or maybe it's too much batshit mediaeval poetry. Either way, not good.

I can see why the cult of Our Lady The Blessed Weasel never caught on, though.†

† Hey, maybe this proves that Voldemort will actually be destroyed by a Weasley? Somebody kill me now....

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I have never read the full version of "The Wind in the Willows" is that I just could not see what was wrong with the weasels in the illustrated children's one.

That is My Lovely Horse in your icon, isn't it?

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

Yup. I didn't make it though. Credit is on userinfo. It's my "posting about animals" one, which disturbed me rather a lot when I carelessly used it to comment on something oursin had written about bestiality. It seemed a bit close to the bone. Here, I seem to have done you an inadvertent homage (points to icon).

[tree_and_leaf]

But despite the weasel hate, it's a fine book...