I know that back in the day, goats were said to whisper lewd things into the ears of priests (because goats are a naturally horny animal and often blabber to attract ladies). But whenever I see depictions of the devil or demons, they usually have cloven hooves or a goats head?
Does anyone know why this is or where it comes from?
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I think that goats were also pretty importent to norse practice. There is very little written about them, but there is yule goats and stuff like that.
When I was a young kid, and I come from a rural and backwater part of scandinavia, one of the christmas games had a person dress up like a goat, but blinded. Then he would try to catch people, while the rest kind of poked him with their fingers until he gave up and “died”.
Thinking back on it, that costume looked a lot like a classic christian devil”.
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