Owls Aren't Wise And Bats Aren't Blind
Owls Aren't Wise And Bats Aren't Blind
“Toads are ugly, nasty creatures. A toad urinates when it’s picked up.HOW SHALL I LOATHE THEE, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. Pity the poor toad. Down through the ages this inoffensive and beneficial little creature has been regarded at best as downright ugly and at worst as vile and loathsome. Even frogs have fared far better: they, at least, have been accorded the possibility of reconversion to handsome princehood via the kiss of a benevolent and presumably beautiful princess. Alas, no similarly pleas...ant fate has ever been recorded for a toad! Even Kenneth Grahame, in his classic The Wind in the Willows, portrays Mr. Toad as a bumbling, conceited ass, albeit a well-meaning and generally likable one.The much-maligned toad has even been associated with evil and the demonic. In the first scene of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, for instance, the witches depart when they say, “Paddock [a term for the toad] calls. . . .” Then, in the famous cauldron scene, in which the witches brew their “hell-broth,” they throw into the potion “Toad that under cold stone, days and nights has thirty-one.MoreLess
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