Sunday, August 05, 2012

LARS THOMAS: A beast of a bezoar

This little piece of writing is perhaps not so much a matter of cryptozoology as a piece of magic - or at least pertaining to magic.

Quite a lot of us have read the Harry Potter books and have read the famous scene where Harry saves a poisoned Ron Weazley by shoving a bezoar down his throat. Now, I have always imagined bezoars, which are "stones" that forms in the stomach of goats and various other cloven-hoofed animals, to be rather small, and indeed in the Harry Potter stories that's exactly what they are, so imagine my surprise, when leafing through an old book about daily life in Denmark in olden days, I came across a picture.

Read on...

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