Medieval Rats?

The daily create asked for DS106 index additions to a medieval text on rats…well, yes. It is the daily create, after all.

I felt like doing a little more than edit a .psd file so I went googling for ideas. I thought: there must be somethings that bring together DS106 and Rats….

I discovered something delightful.

It turns out that Lisa had made an amazing gif with a painting that came much later than medieval times. Never mind history. Sorry, Lisa. I loved the gif and also appreciated the hard work that had gone into making it ( I remember the frustrations when I started making gifs…there must be an easier way to do this).

Lisa tells us that the rat after 1750’s was not a evil as the black rat that came before it. For some sound educational reason she wanted  to add a rat to the painting and ask her students: Is he a troublemaker?

So, I could not resist remixing her lovely gif. Who knows? It may be of use to her still…

Finally, I spent some delightful time at the Internet Archive searching for items for the index  – I used Lisa’s painting as background to add the entries, making my own index with mysterious rat topics.