26 Myths That Might Have Originated Because People With Poor Eyesight Had No Access To Glasses, As Shared On Twitter

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Using various things to magnify has been around since the Egyptians but the first glasses didn't show up until 13th century Italy and India (separate invention same time) and they were handheld (think of those opera glasses on a stick). These were still made by glassblowers so you couldn't really do the see with glasses thing - Still more of a magnifier but not bad if you're a jeweler needing to see your product.. During the late 1600s they finally started figuring out grinding lenses giving us the first telescopes, microscopes and monocles that truly focused. First pair of have what we think of glasses (over the ear frames, bridge connecting two lenses whose refraction was designed to clear each eye's vision independently) was a dude named Martin in the early 1700s. The next big thing was 4 lens glasses - you had a second lens on each side that you could move down like the optometrist does when doing the #1 or #2 thing. Ben Franklin did the next big thing by cutting the 4 lenses and making them two for the first bifocals.

that's what i heard.

That actually makes sense

Lady manatees have mammaries between their fore flippers, which could add to the effect.

Manatees can look very much like humans in the face, although I have never seen one that resembled a woman. Also I have never seen one on the rocks. So not sure what they were looking at with their terrible eyesight. Maybe a seal?

Sea cows! I love them!

A manatee in England… I don’t think so.

A flying peacock looks like a dragon

And crusaders travelling to the Mideast and see an animal in the distance. It is white, seems to have the head and body of a horse, the tail of a lion, the legs of a deer, and a single straight horn coming out of his forehead. If all they saw was a profile, or a single animal missing one, it would be credible to assume, but despite how quick and fast they are, an Arabian Oryx doesn't have a single horn. Yet these were featured on coats of arms for millenia as a symbol of purity......as a unicorn.

good one

What about the breathing fire part? Lol.

I think this is an excellent description of a very strange looking animal

All this time I thought the expression was “buck naked”

I think the myth of centaurs came from people who had never seen a man riding a horse before and didn't know what to make of it!

Centaurs are probrably the result of someone who had never encountered the idea of domesticated animals seeing someone from another tribe riding a horse. It would look bizarre and inexplicable - a horse, but with a human attatched to it.

Maybe not exactly "walking" with a horse.....

It's probably a dragonfly since they have more resemblance to fairies (wings, way of flying, rounded head, and long tail)

Some flying insects look eerily like fairies

Surely it was a firefly?

Or a dragonfly. Nature's fairies.

Stop ruining my dreams!!!

Anyone is a son of Zeus who has two arms, two legs and two eyes since this is a slightly above average number. This would be in keeping with Zeus's character as he is portrayed in mythology.

Me, without glasses, approaching exitedly to a unicorn (read: rhyno) here, here, you cute chubby horsey. Let's take a ride.

What is so strange about a unicorn? They are absolutely possible and real. Horse like animal with one horn. What's the big deal.