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Apollonia Saintclair

Apparently one type of deer hunting practiced in the Middle Ages was using “stalking horses” which involves crouching behind horse in a forest and slowly guiding it towards a deer that’s been tracked because deer are not frightened by the sight of other tall quadrupeds and I like how “horses as a form of camouflage” is belongs to the list of uses for domestic horses

Thank you @chiropteracupola ! “Stalking horse” is still a phrase and one whose meaning is easy to remember, I think

Thank you @bogkeep 😇

This is the hexacorn after painter Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton, which began chasing de Hamilton in 1685 and pursued him until de Hamilton's death of natural causes (hexacorn) in 1754.

It was relentless but strangely tender