In his ongoing series until the 'kingdom comes', simen johan depicts a natural world hovering between reality, fantasy and nightmare.
As a child I remember reading a book which said animals, and more specifically dogs, couldn't cry. I assume this is true but then again where did the saying 'crocodile tears' come from.
It means 'an insincere show of grief or false tears' and apparently comes from the belief that crocodiles weep either to lure a victim to them or when eating one.
Anyway this is what I found on wiki
The myth appeared in print in The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Maundeville, circa 1400:
“ In that country and by all Inde be great plenty of cockodrills, that is a manner of a long serpent, as I have said before. And in the night they dwell in the water, and on the day upon the land, in rocks and in caves. And they eat no meat in all the winter, but they lie as in a dream, as do the serpents. These serpents slay men, and they eat them weeping; and when they eat they move the over jaw, and not the nether jaw, and they have no tongue.'
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