A Glimpse into my World: Foot Fetish Part III
Dear Olaf
Try Googling on monopod + Pliny, Historia naturalis.
John Block Friedman's book on the monstruous races in antiquity and
the Middle Ages is rich on information about Monopods and other
strange creatures.
By the way, they make a lovely appearance as Dufflepuds in one of C.
S. Lewis's Narnia books (The Magician's Nephew? I'm working from
memory).
Karen
>Dear List,
>
>I am searching the proper term of the one-footed Ethopians in Sir
>John Mandeville's Voyages (on the book market right into the late
>18th century).
>
>Google did not like the combination Monopede+Mandeville - though I
>thought one would call them monopedes. Can a native speaker tell me
>whether there is anything special about monopedes that will make
>them less the folks Mandeville was writing about (and is there a
>proper term for these people I should use)?
>
>best,
>Olaf
>
>
>...I should call them one-footed Ethopians, I know..., but now I
>just became intrigued about the proper use of the term monopede -
>Google's answers on monopede are particularly odd.
>
>For an image from an early Mandeville edition see:
>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Mandeville_1499.gif
Try Googling on monopod + Pliny, Historia naturalis.
John Block Friedman's book on the monstruous races in antiquity and
the Middle Ages is rich on information about Monopods and other
strange creatures.
By the way, they make a lovely appearance as Dufflepuds in one of C.
S. Lewis's Narnia books (The Magician's Nephew? I'm working from
memory).
Karen
>Dear List,
>
>I am searching the proper term of the one-footed Ethopians in Sir
>John Mandeville's Voyages (on the book market right into the late
>18th century).
>
>Google did not like the combination Monopede+Mandeville - though I
>thought one would call them monopedes. Can a native speaker tell me
>whether there is anything special about monopedes that will make
>them less the folks Mandeville was writing about (and is there a
>proper term for these people I should use)?
>
>best,
>Olaf
>
>
>...I should call them one-footed Ethopians, I know..., but now I
>just became intrigued about the proper use of the term monopede -
>Google's answers on monopede are particularly odd.
>
>For an image from an early Mandeville edition see:
>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Mandeville_1499.gif
