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.
Exactly. Any gardener knows snails are deadly. Even in our age!
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.