Batty?

For generations the inhabitants of Sicily thought bats were the wandering souls of men who had been murdered. Medieval Europeans imagined them to be a form of witches and emissaries of Satan. Other superstitions and strange misconceptions have been developed and associated with the bat such as the prevalent idea that bats get in people’s hair, becoming so entangled that it is extremely difficult to dislodge them, and, also, the false belief that bats are blind. However, all these theories have...