[Sansevierias] science facts about hedgehogs

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Hibernating hedgehogs  Bestiary, England 13th 
century (British Library, Royal 12 F XIII, fol. 45r)

Hedgehogs

The belief was that the hedgehog rolls on apples 
or grapes to make the fruit stick to its spines, 
so it can carry the food back to its young. The 
bestiary writers allegorized this as a warning of 
the clever stratagems of the devil in stealing 
man's spiritual fruits.  Pliny the Elder 1C CE 
(Natural History, Book 8, 56): To prepare for 
winter, hedgehogs roll on fallen apples to stick 
them to their spines, then taking one or more in 
their mouths, carry the load to hollow trees. 
Hedgehogs foretell a change in wind direction 
from north to south when they retire to their 
lairs. When hunted, they roll up into a ball so 
that it is not possible to pick them up without touching their spines.

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  Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, Folio 52v 
((gathering grapes on their quills)


Isidore of Seville [7C CE] (Etymologies, Book 12, 
3:7): The hedgehog is covered with quills, which 
it stiffens when threatened, and rolling itself 
into a ball is thus protected on all sides. After 
it cuts a bunch of grapes off a vine it rolls 
over them so it can carry the grapes to its young on its quills.


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  Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 151, Folio 30r (going for the apples)


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  Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 308, Folio 98v (with grapes or apples on quills)


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   Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 247, Folio 147v (gathering grapes)


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  British Library, Harley MS 4751, Folio 31v


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  British Library, Royal MS 2 B. vii, Folio 97v (with grapes on quills)


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  Huntington Library, HM 27523, Folio 228r


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  J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, Folio 
79v (gathering grapes) Hedgehog in the vineyard. Flanders Beastiary c 1270


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  Kongelige Bibliotek, Gl. kgl. S. 1633 4º, Folio 29v


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   Kongelige Bibliotek, Gl. kgl. S. 3466 8º, 
Folio 45v (gathering grapes on quills)


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  Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, Folio 57r


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  Morgan Library, MS M.81, Folio 10v (with and without grapes on quills)


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Museum Meermanno, MMW, 10 B 25, Folio 25r


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Hedgehog stealing apples, c 1320 (Cambridge).


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Hedgehog with something stuck on his quills BnF NAF 13521, 24v


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