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https://all-about-ferrets.com/weasel-folklore.html Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:09:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://all-about-ferrets.com/weasel-folklore.html#comment-4672 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:09:50 +0000 http://all-about-ferrets.rideontoydepot.com/weasel-folklore/#comment-4672 Miriam, what a fascinating thing to have witnessed! And so many people say that animals are “dumb”!
Unfortunately the only mustelids we have here in Oz are ferrets (and I thank God that we do have them here 😉 ) but when we lived overseas in countries which do have them, I was totally unaware of them!
Thanks so much for sharing that piece of information with me 😀
Cheers
~Nona

]]> https://all-about-ferrets.com/weasel-folklore.html#comment-4671 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:51:03 +0000 http://all-about-ferrets.rideontoydepot.com/weasel-folklore/#comment-4671 I was thinking back to a scene I witnessed while backpacking in Ladakh in 1981. It is stored in my memory under “ferret funeral”. I was walking near Thiksey monastery. From the road, I observed a group of ferret- or weasel-like animals by the river bank “solemnly” carrying the body of a fellow ferret/weasel. It reminded me of scenes I had witnessed in the alleys of Varanasi (Benares) a month before, where groups of men carried corpses wrapped in cloth down to the Ghats on the Ganges for burning. It was such a weird scene, that, in retrospect, I think I may have made the story up. On the off chance that I didn’t, I googled “ferret funeral” just now and found this page with the Scottish “myth” about a weasel funeral. So maybe I didn’t make it up after all.

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