Savy, Pierre (Author)
Surprisingly, during the Middle Ages and Early modern period the English and the Jews were sometimes believed to have tails. But unlike `exotic' and sometimes unreal nations who were commonly given various chimerical and monstrous features, the English and the Jews were of course real nations that were present in the West. The meanings of these beliefs are significantly different: the phrase regarding `the tailed Englishman', which was a bad joke or an insult, more than a sincere belief, referred to alleged English animalistic tendencies and perfidy, whereas we suggest that the animal and satanic appendix of the Jews can also be understood as a literal interpretation of a passage from the Bible.
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