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=

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Hellvampire 10 points 3 months ago

I'm suspicious of your last statement in combination with your name🤨🦇

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TabbsTheBat 9 points 3 months ago

Drats foiled again! And by another vampire no less! haha :3

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panda_abyss 1 point 3 months ago

I didn’t know Keanu used lemmy!

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Impractical_Island 1 point 3 months ago

When I was a kid we got hedgehogs but they died so my dad froze them, took their spines out and fed them to his snakes.

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Impractical_Island 1 point 3 months ago

He would thaw them in hot water to heat them up to get the snakes to strike them. He just kept them frozen so they didn't go bad

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tyler 10 points 3 months ago

I want this to be true so bad but I’m way too tired to research it right now

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ILikeBoobies 5 points 3 months ago

https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/...

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).

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Vinylraupe 8 points 3 months ago

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.

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Obi 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to finding in research, but we installed a little hedgehog house in our garden and give them some (specialized) food when we see them.

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WorldsDumbestMan 2 points 3 months ago

Nope, there's like two fucking in my backyard right now.

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Foxer 4 points 3 months ago

This confirms my long held belief that hedgehogs would be fun at parties. They'd be like little mobile snack trays

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sober_monk 3 points 3 months ago

IIRC instead, they smear shit on their backs.