Fox and Goose Replica Medieval Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Children's_Discovery & Learning A member of the Iona

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Fox and Goose Replica Medieval Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Children's_Discovery & Learning A member of the IonaThis unusual badge, depicting a fox dressed as a pilgrim with pilgrims staff and scrip and apparently taking a goose for a walk seems to draw on popular medieval proverbs and follies for its inspiration. The fox was regarded as the archetype of cunning and deceitfulness, while the goose was a proverbially foolish bird. Here the fox seems to have tricked the goose by disguising itself as a pilgrim and is presumably leading the goose to its ultimate