1 ene 597 año - Why The English Have Tails

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In Walter Bower's 1480 chronicle of Scottish history, he writes an origin story for why he believed the English were given tails. Historian and editor D.E.R. Watts comments, "The tradition mentioned in the first of these stories that at least some Englishmen had tails is one to which Bower refers again in other parts of his book. It was presumably generally believed in fifteenth-century Scotland.”

In the excerpted narrative, Bower writes:
"When blessed Augustine was preaching the word of life to the heathen among the West Saxons in the county of Dorset, he came into a certain village where no one wished to receive him or to listen to his preaching. They rebelled against him in all respects and tried to contradict everything that he said and to obscure everything by taking a wrong meaning out of it, and, a thing which is wicked even to mention, they were so bold as to sew and hang fishtails on his clothing. But what they themselves believed they were doing to harm the holy father actually turned out to be the eternal disgrace of themselves and their descendants and their innocent country. For God smote them in their hinder parts, giving them everlasting shame so that in the private parts both of themselves and their descendants all alike were born with a tail"
( Both quotes are taken from A History Book for Sots: Selections from Schotichronicon by Walter Bower, Edited by D. E. R. Watt)

So what does this tell us about peace?
The belief that Bower presents that the English have tails and that they were given these tails as a punishment for the misdeeds against the Scots speaks to a wider portrayal of how Scottish people felt towards the English. The idea that the English were a biologically different race from the Scots may have fuelled conflict and prevented their getting along.

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