MissMorrigan
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Hi Aneirin, I just found this link: http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/Field_Guide/Images/originals/Fig.%20255.jpg The poor boy is shaking his head wildly and has gone to lock himself in the lav. Such a sensitive fellow! Go to google.co.uk and then images, and type in leeches, some fascinating pictures. There's one of a woman whose feet are covered in claret. Makes for a disturbing image! On a serious note, I'd much rather ensure any leech used on Reality was purely bred for medical purposes to ensure it wasn't carrying any kind of bug it could transfer to him. It's something I've been fascinated with for a while now, and the thread I mentioned in my OP reminded me... I'm sure Reality is most thankful! By the way, speaking of virgins, do they exist over the age of fourteen? I wanted to be kind, so raised it to fourteen. I sincerely hope it's a fallacy, I'd hate to have to scour the south coast for one, it'll take me a bloody long time to find one - if ever! quote:
ORIGINAL: Aneirin Yep, I go for the streams and brooks, many times in my youth walking the brooks bare legged, net in one hand and a jar of sticklebacks in the other have I caught leeches on me. Yukky but fascinating creatures. The very thought of being covered in aquatic vampires is a strange one. But hold, I heard those common leeches that are found in Britain's waterways transmit a bug or other in their feeding.Maybe it is a fallacy like so many other fallacies out there in the public domain, but one has to ask from where did the medics of old obtain their leeches, I would bet Britain's waterways. Yes, not a bad idea MissMorrigan, we must all be kind to animals, leeches included. Just think how grateful the creature would be,being given the choicest parts of a human to gorge on. From something I read years ago, apparently virgins are good at catching them, virgins being a magnet for the little suckers or is that more fallacy based on the vampire idea.
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