Regina writes
>in medieval times it was believed that weasels gave birth through their
>ears.
 
And if you want proof of that belief, check out
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/23v.hti
 and
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/24r.hti
 
for the Aberdeen Bestiary, written in England in about 1200.  Some other
pretty strange beliefs on those and adjacent pages!
 
Noteworthy though on the second page is that there are two kinds of
weasels, one that lives in forests and one that "roams around in houses".
Presumably the latter are our domestic ferrets!
 
Linda Iroff
Oberlin OH
[Posted in FML issue 3972]