Depending on your country hedgehogs are having a very bad time right now and might go extinct next. You can research on the internet how you can slow down or stop the process.
Interesting. I’ve seen this stereotype retained in cartoons
This is Czechoslovak Little Mole from 1970
Krtek! This was on Norwegian children’s TV when I was little :)
When I was a kid and drew or modeled a hedgehog I always used to put fruit on it because it was depicted like that a lot :3
medieval times
when I was a kid
…hmmm
Yeah despite people knowing it’s not true the depiction seems to hold in kid’s media, so as a kid I picked it up as something I thought was real for a while
Either that or im a vampire or a lich =w=
I’m suspicious of your last statement in combination with your name🤨🦇
Drats foiled again! And by another vampire no less! haha :3
I want this to be true so bad but I’m way too tired to research it right now
https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/p/hedgehogs-in-folklore-witches-familiars
Best I found, it mentions the fruit but it’s a lot more modern, I think it makes it plausible for the myth to be older.
Yet B. at The Irish Penny Journal assured readers that no, they could not, after trying to see if he could make it work himself (1840: 167).
