Interesting. I've seen this stereotype retained in cartoons

This is Czechoslovak Little Mole from 1970
Interesting. I've seen this stereotype retained in cartoons

This is Czechoslovak Little Mole from 1970
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=
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.
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.
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).
This confirms my long held belief that hedgehogs would be fun at parties. They'd be like little mobile snack trays
IIRC instead, they smear shit on their backs.
How do these little guys scurry through thick hedges and not get stuck all the time?
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