Apr 8
14th c. pheasant hunting trick (a pheasant being lured into a hunter's trap by its own reflection in a mirror, which it believes to be a particularly beautiful mating rival that it needs to fight)
illustration from a manuscript of henri de ferrières' hunting manual, le livre du roy modus et de la royne racio. paris, c. 1375-1400
source: Paris, BnF, Français 1297, fol. 88r ; for more context on the mirror trick see this blog entry by artifexinopere as well as this edition of ferrières hunting manual (pp. 283-286 for the pheasant chapter)
