mroped
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Post by mroped on Feb 14, 2015 18:22:35 GMT -5
That was one of the rumors about Catherine the Great of Russia - that she has sex with horses. There were LOTS of rumors about her though. We covered a few of them in a Russian History class I had in High School. The way I heard it was that Marie Antoinette was messing with the horses. Catherine the great had Rasputin to keep her in check(or satisfied) and that was one of the reasons why the man had so much power and influence at the court.
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Post by dannylion on Feb 14, 2015 19:22:56 GMT -5
That was one of the rumors about Catherine the Great of Russia - that she has sex with horses. There were LOTS of rumors about her though. We covered a few of them in a Russian History class I had in High School. The way I heard it was that Marie Antoinette was messing with the horses. Catherine the great had Rasputin to keep her in check(or satisfied) and that was one of the reasons why the man had so much power and influence at the court. Unless either Catherine the Great or Grigoriy Rasputin was a time traveler, it is unlikely that they ever encountered one another. Catherine died in 1796. Rasputin was born in 1869. Rasputin was the "spiritual divisor" to Czarina Alexandra, wife of Czar Nicholas II. Rasputin's influence with the royal family was based on the Czarina's desperate hope that his reputed ability to heal through prayer would enable him to cure her son of hemophilia. Rasputin had no interaction with Catherine at all as she was long dead before he was born.
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Post by mroped on Feb 14, 2015 20:45:31 GMT -5
Yeah, bit of confusion there! I was thinking about Alexandra and her hemophiliac son. catherina was about 120 years before that. thanks!
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Feb 14, 2015 22:18:09 GMT -5
Lol, the watermelon seed one is so true!!! When I was about four the neighbor got pregnant and when I asked my mom how that happend she told me the neighbor swallowed a watermelon seed and while I questioned the validity of that, I was terrified of swallowing a watermelon seed for years The face thing I was told a lot but I always knew it was bullshit When I was little, I was told if a boy pinches your butt, you got pregnant. My mom got paid back for that one when I was in 1st grade. The school had to call her because I was crying hysterically in the office because a boy named Johnny pinched my butt and I was convinced I was pregnant! Oh man! I am navagating these waters with my six year old, he has so many questions sometimes I try not to lie but I don't yet tell him about the birds and the bees. He knows babies come from a mommies belly but not the logistics of it
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Post by swamp on Feb 15, 2015 8:45:45 GMT -5
When she was 6 DD asked me how babies come out. She had seen my c section scar and was curious. I told her about c sections and then told her the "normal" way. She was horrified.
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 16, 2015 18:56:46 GMT -5
I had a friend who was told that if you sleep with a man, you'll get pregnant. That is all. They used to rent a small cottage for the summer with one bedroom, where, she, her mom and dad had to share one bedroom. She was absolutely terrified to fall asleep and kept pinching herself all night to stay awake so she wouldn't get pregnant. Honesty is the best policy.
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Post by lynnerself on Feb 16, 2015 20:19:22 GMT -5
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Post by beergut on Feb 22, 2015 21:31:09 GMT -5
That was one of the rumors about Catherine the Great of Russia - that she has sex with horses. There were LOTS of rumors about her though. We covered a few of them in a Russian History class I had in High School. She didn't have sex with horses. Catherine was a powerful woman, and the best way to denounce and destroy a woman's relevance is to call her a whore. The fact that they had to get creative with it, and say she had such an appetite for sex that it took a horse to satisfy her, tells you how much some men feared her.
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