Love the snails in medieval manuscripts.
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That's amazing
Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail,
The best man amongst them durst not touch her tail;
She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow;
Run, tailors, run, or she’ll kill you all e’en now.
The alternative explanation is that there actually were a lot of aggressive giant snails, and these fights were just part of medieval life...