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And you folks sat on eggs too!
https://daily.jstor.org/when-all-the-english-had-tails/
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It was common knowledge among Parisians that each English person, under their clothes, concealed a secret tail. Beginning in the twelfth century, writes art historian Lilian M. C. Randall, French literature was peppered with references to this hidden appendage—and the story soon spread. In his history of the taunt written the end of the nineteenth century, George Neilson argued that the Scottish boasted before a skirmish in 1332 that they would “make ropes of the tails of the English to tie them with.” An Italian book of the fourteenth century also described England as an island whose inhabitants were born with short tails, like deer.
https://daily.jstor.org/when-all-the-english-had-tails/
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It was common knowledge among Parisians that each English person, under their clothes, concealed a secret tail. Beginning in the twelfth century, writes art historian Lilian M. C. Randall, French literature was peppered with references to this hidden appendage—and the story soon spread. In his history of the taunt written the end of the nineteenth century, George Neilson argued that the Scottish boasted before a skirmish in 1332 that they would “make ropes of the tails of the English to tie them with.” An Italian book of the fourteenth century also described England as an island whose inhabitants were born with short tails, like deer.
