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Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.

We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking details, and the latest

groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to popes, to the crusades.

We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us who we really were.

And how we got here.

If you've ever been bitten by a poisonous snake,

here's a useful bit of magical healing advice for medieval whales that should help.

Take a live chicken and press its anus against the bite until the chicken dies.

Of course, one, you'd have to have a chicken close by.

And two, you probably won't be able to roast that chicken for your dinner because now it's full of snake poison.

These days, we make a clear distinction between medicine and magic, but that wasn't always the

case. The chicken anus snake bite remedy might seem logical enough, though not much fun for the chicken.

You could see it as a simple medical procedure in which the chicken absorbs the poison, allegedly.

But in the medieval period, these boundaries between science and what we might consider superstition didn't exist as they do today.

Often remedies were considered more effective if they had some sort of oral component.

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