Is this 1500s hunting guide too detailed to be fiction? https://archive.org/search?query=Venationes&tab=all
Why do so many books from the past handful of centuries speak about “mythical” animals just as technically as the “real” animals we know exist today?
Is it all just wild imagination…or rather a forgotten memory, covered up by the veil of false fictionalization?
[Via: @benwehrman]