Fantastically Wrong: When People Thought Lambs Grew Right Out of the Ground

This is the story of the bizarre Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Also known as the barometz, derived from the Tartar word for lamb, this was a useful little creature that Europeans in the Middle Ages--aware that cotton was a thing that arrived from India, yet unaware exactly how it grew--decided was the source of their newfangled threads.

















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