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From the Vault: The Vegetable Lamb, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Origins of the Boramets

Scythian sheep is described as having a massive tail and it has a mass of fat that drags around behind it. The 17th century german polymath at the nacious kurture who's come up on the podcast several times before apparently kurture wrote quote some authors have regarded it as an animal some as a plant will st others have classified it as a true zuophyte in order not to multiply miracles we assert that it is a plant though its form be that of a quadrup head and the juice beneath its woolly covering be blood which flows if an incision be made in its flesh these things will not move us it will be found to be a

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