The Ballad of Eel Horse

Garrison is joined by Robert Evans to discuss “feaguing” in horses and why eels keep being shoved up butts.

Footnotes:

1. https://eels.historiacartarum.org/uncategorized/feaguing-before-there-was-ginger/
2. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-medieval-england-salesmen-shoved-eels-up-their-horses-anus-to-make-a-sale/
3. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C2157C728777E8144EADA1012862CC8A
4. https://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Vietnam/sub5_9b/entry-3358.html
5. https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbxz5a/figging-putting-ginger-up-butt-kink
6. https://www.surgjournal.com/article/S0039-6060(03)00076-X/fulltext
7. http://shanghaiist.com/2010/05/01/man_in_sichuan_dies_after_friends_i/
8. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/eel-be-embarrassed-morning-hospital-removes-asparagus-sized-eel-man-s-rectum-8168078.html?amp
9. http://www.stuff.co.nz/editors-picks/8560745/Eel-X-ray-hospital-staff-disciplined
10. https://www.gawker.com/5994144/chinese-man-requires-emergency-surgery-after-the-swamp-eel-he-stuck-up-his-butt-gnaws-through-his-colon
11. https://metro.co.uk/2013/04/09/man-hospitalised-with-live-eel-stuck-up-his-bum-3589255/
12. https://metro.co.uk/2014/10/29/man-has-eel-like-fish-surgically-removed-from-bum-4927628/
13. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3361785/constipated-man-inserts-live-eel-up-his-bum/
14. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unusual-cause-of-colonic-perforation-secondary-to-%3A-Yao-Huang/a1ca0702d6a4516ffd06527bc4a36ac69dc680aa
15. http://www.ijcem.com/files/ijcem0085912.pdf
16. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7894305/Man-swallows-two-live-eels-treat-constipation-following-folk-remedy.html
17. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/slimy-15-inch-eel-removed-22233923
18. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229761.shtml

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