I love this story a lot, because I keep imagining Tom Hopper - who played Percival-no-e in Merlin - going around doing this these things. Which is especially fun when I got to the part where the knight on the black horse killed the hackney Percival had burrowed and Percival threw himself on the ground and then went to sleep.
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| Tom Hopper as Percival |
So imagine the guy above, arms too big to fit into chain mail, throwing a tantrum and then taking a nap.
A lot of the times though, when I'm reading these stories and these characters are down on their luck, and someone from on high comes to help them out with a "Hey, I'll help you but I'm going to need a favor later" - it blows my mind that no one ever stops and wonders if this is a good idea.
Percival, you don't know who this lady is - why are just going to promise her you'll do something? Yeah, she's got a great horse - BUT!
Oh, and the horse turned out to be a devil. See,
Percy, this is why you don't accept horses from strangers.
With the way the horse was going towards water to taken
Percival to hell, I wonder if this facet of the tale was based on kelpies? Kelpies are, traditionally, water spirits that
take the form of horses. They lure
people onto their backs and then drown them.
If anyone has been to the Fred Jones Art Museum and seen the
scary horse statue with red eyes – I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a
kelpie. I heard that a while ago, so I
may be wrong. These below are definitely
kelpies. They’re located in Falkirk,
Scotland and are almost 100 feet tall.
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| The Kelpies |
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