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]