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🎄Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, please enjoy these festive-looking #hedgehogs.🎄
(In the #medieval bestiary, the hedgehog's story usually involved it rolling around and collecting fallen fruit on its quills to bring home to its children - fruit kebabs to go!)
"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills

Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, 1588 f. 72v
https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/23851/manifest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmmetz/12497461423/in/album-72157640916985905/
"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills

Verdun, Bibl.mun., ms 0107, f. 008
https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/9684/canvas/canvas-1283591/view
"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills

Morgan Library, MS M.81 (The Worksop Bestiary), folio 10v
http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/3/77019
"Christmas hedghogs" - detail of an illiustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, two hedgehogs with red and green round fruits on their quills

Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 101 (Bestiary of Hugh of Fouilloy), folio 189v
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery217.htm
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