Lunchtime Talk - Animal Myths By Anthony Poulton Smith.

Name: Lunchtime Talk - Animal Myths By Anthony Poulton Smith.
Start: 2025-09-05T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-05T13:45:00+01:00
Location: Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 12:30 pm to 01:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery | Nuneaton, EN

Animal Myths is an examination of some of (what seem to us today) the quite ludicrous ideas our ancestors once attributed to our animals. For example the giraffe is the result of a cross between a leopard and a camel; barnacle geese are so-called because nobody had ever seen them lay an egg and they were thought to hatch from the barnacles found on rocks and the bottom of boats; and the hare, a particularly odd creature according to our ancestors, where the female carried eggs on its back (hence eggs being associated with Easter) while the genitalia of the male hare were worn on the belt to ward off infertility.
Antony Poulton Smith is a freelance journalist and author, with 94 books, many articles, is a ghostwriter, innumerable crosswords and puzzles published, whilst also compiling and marketing quizzes. These books have mostly been on the subject of the origins of place-names and as part of the publicity Anthony has been interviewed several times on the radio and privileged to be the guest speaker at more than seven hundred events