Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right?
RIGHT?
Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels?
Yes. Yes it is. 1/5
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RIGHT?
Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels?
Yes. Yes it is. 1/5
🗃️🧪
Comments
It didn’t work…the adder cured the man’s sight instead! 2/5
In another version of the story, the man learns later that he'd eaten serpent & immediately dies. Better late than never? 3/5
Will it be the same for you & YOUR dog? 4/5
Don't let it be your last meel. /fin
There’s my “nothing new under the sun” moment for the day.
🎶 Murder by eels...1, 2, 3
They're so easy to serve, they come from the sea 🎶