Having to pay a dime to use the toilet in a store.
Having to pay a dime to use the toilet in a store.
This is more or less the plot of the book Accelerando.
Ahhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
One origin is The Wild Hunt on the solstice. I don’t think I saw in this article, but I have seen mention of jul logs being associated with bonfires being lit on the solstice to guide Odin during the hunt.
So, do the Germans have an equivalent to the old washroom toilet stall poem that goes: