A number of texts have preserved the 'tricks of the trade' of medieval pranksters. The notebook of Thomas Betson, a fifteenth-century monk at Syon Abbey in Middlesex, records his joke of hiding a beetle inside a hollowed-out apple. When the apple began to mysteriously rock back and forth people believed it to be possessed. Other manuscripts include instructions for more mischievous tricks, such as how to make beds itchy and meat appear wormy.


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i just read this section on medievil trickeries ... have you uncovered the secret behind one of jesus christs miracles ... how to turn water into wine ??? hmmmm interesting
Posted by head1ess_chicken  in  brisbane australia  on  Fri Aug 12, 2005  at  09:40 PM
This is prankbuster and these medieval trix sound like a lot of fun and more ways to pran my sister,but are there more of these classical pranks?
Posted by PrankBuster  on  Mon Jun 12, 2006  at  12:44 PM
the jesus turned water into wine thing gave me two idea's,one is to give your brother/sister some coolade or something and fill it with tons of salt doesn't really matter how much you pour into it,and two is to cut a hole in a apple[but make sure some couldn't tell that it was in the apple]and fill the hole with ketchup and put the peice you cutted out back in and see if they like them apple's... your fellow prankster, PrankBuster
Posted by PrankBuster  on  Mon Jun 12, 2006  at  01:04 PM
I've seen the water into wine trick. In reality I think it was something like diluted vodka into colored diluted vodka. Anyway it's easy to do clear to colored. It's much harder (impossible?) to do colored to clear. The lame walking hoax usually just requires a plant in the audience, maybe an extra or two to support the story and a couple of crutches or something to pull it off.
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