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Thursday, 27 March 2025

DID DRAKE DEVOUR HORSES?

An English legend says a plow aand team of horses sank in soft ground at Drake Hollow, in Lincolnshire, England.  When the horses disappeared, it seemed that a drake flew out of the hole they made in the ground.  Had the Drake eaten the horses?


Now, it has never occurred to me that Drake might favor horsemeat in their diet.  It is possible that in this legend the Drake was originally a Dragon.  As generations passed, the local peasantry confused Drake, meaning a dragon, with Drake, meaning a male duck and this is how this curious legend came to have so singular a predator.


  


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