Animal

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Animals crop up in many areas of history.

Feasts

All manner of animals, from birds and beasts, to rodents and fish, can be marinated, boiled, stewed, roasted, baked, fried, stuffed, preserved and eaten!

List of some animals known to have been eaten:

  • badger
  • bittern
  • boar
  • bream
  • cattle (including calves)
  • capon
  • chicken
  • cod
  • coney (rabbit)
  • conger eel
  • cray
  • crane
  • crow
  • curlew
  • deer (stags, bucks and roes)
  • duck (inluding mallard, teal, shelduck and tufted)
  • egret
  • goat (including kids)
  • hare
  • heron
  • horse
  • goose
  • gull
  • greenshank
  • jackdaw
  • lapwing
  • linnet
  • magpie
  • mallard
  • moorhen
  • oxen
  • partridge
  • peacock
  • perch
  • pheasant
  • pig
  • pigeon - including wood pigeon
  • pike
  • plover (grey and golden)
  • porpoise
  • quail
  • rees
  • rock dove
  • rook
  • seal
  • sheep (both lamb and mutton)
  • snipe
  • sparrow
  • squirrel
  • starling
  • swan
  • teal
  • thrush
  • whimbrel
  • whiting
  • wild bull
  • woodcocks


In desperate times other animals might also be eaten including"

Heraldry

Animals can be used as heraldic charges.

Animals in the SCA

A&S

Combat

Some parts of the SCA permit equestrian events. Various animals are used in war scenarios (not real ones, of course!), such as goat/sheep stealing or hunting of the deer. Stuffed sheep also make excellent combat archery targets.