8filltheheart Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Maybe others of you already knew this, but apparently the term peeping Tom is connected to the legend of Lady Godiva. When she was riding through the streets wrapped in her hair, Tom apparently looked at her and he was either struck blind or died. My dd, as always, fascinated by the connectedness of language, declared that this is why you lose your cultural history if you lose your language and cultures that lose their language have really lost their culture. (And I am way too lazy to fix my butchered sentence. ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneddmanybooks Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Dd just read this somewhere a few days ago! I am trying to remember where...oh, I think it was (of all places) a book about horses. :) I remember saying something like, they must have really had bad taxes (her book said Godiva did it to convince her dh to lower taxes on the common people). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merylvdm Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I remember discovering this fact as a teen .... needless to say it is one of the things I didn't forget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 We only learned it bc I didn't remember that King Arthur condemned Guinevere to be burned at the stake (or alternatively be eaten alive by wild animals.) I had gotten her confused with Lady Godiva. But finding out where an expression came from that we just take for granted was a bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugs Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I learned about it through the TV show "Maude"- first run. lol! The lyrics went, "Lady Godiva was a freedom rider she didn't care if the whole world looked." It stirred my curiosity so I looked up her, and Isadora (I already knew about Joan of Arc). Sad to say, that was partly how I was educated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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