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Apothecary Alligator
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The workshop of a wizard, alchemist, or apothecary is never complete without a stuffed crocodile or alligator hanging from the ceiling. Occasionally, another kind of reptile, usually some kind of large snake or, in more exotic settings, a monster like a basilisk, might appear in addition to or instead of the traditional crocodilian. What it's actually for is anybody's guess. Somewhat Truth in Television, as historically animal skeletons, fossils, and taxidermy pieces were exhibited by medieval apothecaries and astrologers as a show of wealth and worldliness. The curiosities brought in both gawkers and customers, and served as a form of advertisement note This trend continues in the current day in other types of retailers. Tattoo shops and pawnshops may display a $40,000 Harley Davidson motorcycle in their window even though it's not for sale. The purpose is the same: to draw interest and onlookers. ; after all, anyone making enough money to purchase exotic specimens for display must be doing good business. This trend would eventually evolve into early museums in the form of personal "cabinets of curiosities" — see this picture◊ from 1599. Historians suspect the alligator in particular might have turned into the most prevalent example simply due to its durability: with their thick hairless hides and squat, compact bodies, preserved alligators are less prone to damage over centuries than more delicate specimens, meaning that more of them have survived to give the impression that every apothecary had one. |
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The Crystal Maze: A Mystery Room in the medieval zone is dressed as an alchemist's laboratory, complete with stuffed crocodile (with a clue in its mouth). | |
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Mort (1987): The workshop of Cutwell the wizard includes, among various shabby decorations, a stuffed alligator. The narration notes that this is an obligatory accoutrement for wizards. | |
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Moth and Cobweb: The witch of Bertolac's castle has an alligator hanging in her tower. Its mate helps Gil and Foxglove escape when they ask. | |
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Mystery Case Files: In Ravenhearst Unlocked, the apothecary shop has what appears to be a stuffed dimetrodon hanging from the ceiling. | |
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The Devils: An apothecary alligator is used as an Improvised Weapon. | |
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Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins: The first issue depicts an alligator hanging in the shop of the Stilben alchemist Zeth. | |
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The Once and Future King (1938): Merlyn's cottage includes "a real corkindrill" hanging from the rafters. Despite being dead and having glass for eyes, it winks at Merlyn when the latter comes into the room. | |
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The Steerswoman (1989) by Rosemary Kirstein: An early edition shows, on the cover, a scene set in a wizard's sanctum. You can tell it's a wizard's sanctum because of the stuffed crocodile hanging from the roof — an interesting case of trope-as-shorthand, since the wizards' sanctum in the book itself is entirely bereft of taxidermied reptiles. | |
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Fist of Legend: A kung fu master uses dried crocodile to treat his asthma, knowledge of which is used to poison him. | |
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Bedknob and Broomstick (1943) by Mary Norton: Miss Price's workroom includes a small stuffed alligator hanging by wires from the ceiling. She admits that it doesn't serve any particular purpose and the habit's out of date, but she likes the way it looks. | |
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The Kingkiller Chronicle: Caudicus, the Maer's arcanist, has a stuffed crocodile hanging from his ceiling. | |
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Discworld: Frequently mentioned, and Lampshaded as an occupational necessity. Every proper wizard has a stuffed alligator hanging from the ceiling of his laboratory, even if there aren't any alligators naturally in the area. No one, especially the wizards, is sure whynote Although never brought up in books in which the term is used, a witch would probably consider this to be a form of Boffo used to establish one's credentials. The Light Fantastic (1986): A preserved crocodile, smelling strongly of camphor, hangs in a wizard's workshop. A magic shop also briefly displays a stuffed crocodile "with a lifelike expression of extreme pain and surprise". Mort (1987): The workshop of Cutwell the wizard includes, among various shabby decorations, a stuffed alligator. The narration notes that this is an obligatory accoutrement for wizards. Men at Arms (1993): The billiards lab in the Alchemist's Guild features a stuffed alligator in the corner, seemingly for no reason. Soul Music (1994): Quoth the Raven says that "the old stuffed alligator hanging from the ceiling" is a key part of wizardry, like dribbly candles and "bubbling green stuff in bottles". He scornfully adds that the wizards "get it all out of a catalogue. Believe me, it all comes in a big box". |
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Skin Horse: The storyline "Ghosts I Have Been", which is both Official Fan-Submitted Content and A Day in the Limelight for Remy the voodoo mortician, opens with him picking up his groceries, including a dead alligator. Which is then possessed by the Nonhuman Intelligence of the Week. | |
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The Light Fantastic (1986): A preserved crocodile, smelling strongly of camphor, hangs in a wizard's workshop. A magic shop also briefly displays a stuffed crocodile "with a lifelike expression of extreme pain and surprise". | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: In the 1st edition adventure "Dying of the Light" (1995), the characters meet Dr Balthazar, a dwarf alchemist from the University of Nuln. The cart he is travelling in is loaded with the paraphernalia of his alchemical studies, including a stuffed alligator. | |
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Everhood: Brown Mage has a crocodile in his lair. Turns out it's not stuffed; it's been paralized, and it begs you to kill it. Doing so is required to finish the game as intended. | |
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Neverwhere (1996): Lord Portico's study includes a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling. | |
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The Mansion of E: Crazy Rhid has a stuffed "crocogator" hanging in his chemical workshop. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In a creepy variant, the goblin spellcaster from the module "DDA4: The Dymrak Dread" has a preserved lizardfolk carcass on display in his workshop. | |
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Call of Cthulhu campaign The Fungi from Yuggoth (1984), adventure "The Thing in the Well": Dr. Cornwallis has a stuffed alligator hanging by wires from the ceiling of his alchemical laboratory. | |
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He may not be an apothecary, but Joseph Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (the father of Captain Ben Sisko) has an alligator suspended from the ceiling of his creole restaurant in New Orleans. | |
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Outlander: In the episode "Not in Scotland Anymore", Clare enters Master Raymond's apothecary, where a stuffed alligator◊ is suspended from the ceiling. | |
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Romeo and Juliet (1597): The description of the apothecary's shop, Act V Scene I, contains what might be the first recorded use of the word "alligator" in English literature: | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones: Alligators in Fantasyland are almost entirely absent except as mummified decorations of Wizard's workrooms, usually serving as signs that the local mage is friendly. The guide speculates that they may be otherwise extinct, as actually living alligators are almost never seen. | |
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La Reine Margot: René's laboratory had an assortment of odd tools, that include a yawning alligator. | |
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From Beyond the Grave: At the start of "The Elemental", the proprietor of Temptations Ltd. is carrying a small stuffed crocodile and does not put it down throughout the transaction, which serves to emphasise the peculiar nature of the shop and its contents, and the possibly magical nature of the proprietor. | |
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The Wheel of Time: Referenced. Verin's rooms in the White Tower feature (among many other things) the skull of a huge, toothy lizard native to the Drowned Lands. | |
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Gabriel Knight: The Voodoo shop in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993) has a dried alligator head. The proprietor claims it to be just a curio to impress tourists and superstitious old ladies. He is lying: the head is an authentic mask for use in Voodoo rituals. | |
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception: There is a dissected crocodile attached to a balcony in the library below London. There is even a trophy for jumping over it called "Ride the Crocodile". | |
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The Bad Guys: Parodied. Granny Gumbo is an alligator in this case, while also being a witch doctor. | |
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Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: In One Good Knight (2006), , one character comments that the Tradition requires Acadian Sophants (a cross between a wizard and an adviser) to have a stuffed crocodile hanging from their rafters. When he tried to get rid of his, there was an even bigger one hanging from his ceiling the next day, looking smug. | |
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Men at Arms (1993): The billiards lab in the Alchemist's Guild features a stuffed alligator in the corner, seemingly for no reason. | |
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958): There is a stuffed alligator mounted on the walls of the workshop of Sokurah the magician. | |
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Out of Oz: When Rain explores the Wicked Witch Elphaba's old room, she finds a stuffed crocodrilos hanging from a rafter, pickled in brine. | |
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The Trader of Stories Chapter II: Referenced. The Alchemical Decore Shoppe offers a free stuffed crocodile with every two skulls, but Sallamman the apothecary doesn't seem to have taken them up on the offer, settling for one skull. | |
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The Wise Man's Fear: Caudicus, who purports to be a healer, has one in his tower. When the main character asks what it's for, Caudicus admits that he has no idea. | |
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Loyal Enemies: Shelena's employer has stuffed basilisk. Dusty and rather shabby at that, but everyone is too lazy to bring it to taxidermist for restauration. | |
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A Ballad of the Dragon and She-Wolf: Qyburn has a large mummified lizard lion hanging from the ceiling of his lab among many other creepy artifacts. | |
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie: The eccentric Captain Manzini has a stuffed alligator in his laboratory, which the half-alligator Garbage Pail Kid Ali Gator recognizes as his "Uncle Charlie". | |
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The Curse of Monkey Island (1997): The Voodoo Lady has a stuffed alligator whose tongue you have to pull to summon her. | |
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Soul Music (1994): Quoth the Raven says that "the old stuffed alligator hanging from the ceiling" is a key part of wizardry, like dribbly candles and "bubbling green stuff in bottles". He scornfully adds that the wizards "get it all out of a catalogue. Believe me, it all comes in a big box". | |
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Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Krakatoa the witch also has a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling of her house. | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy (2003): Mentioned in Book 1 in the description of the magician Arthur Underwood's study. The djinni Bartimaeus notes that this, along with other stereotypical "wizardly" paraphernalia, is a good indication that Underwood is a second rate poser, trying to hide his incompetence behind spooky knickknacks that impress the Muggles but don't have any practical use, whereas the truly powerful magicians favor a sleek, modern look (and as later events demonstrate, calling Underwood a "second rate poser" might be considered overly generous). | |
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Sherlock Holmes: In Sherlock Holmes und das Ungeheuer von Ulmen (Sherlock Holmes and the Monster of Ulmen) by Franziska Franke, there is an apothecary shop complete with stuffed alligator. | |
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The Spirit Ring, by Lois McMaster Bujold: The workshop of Abbot Monreale (a magician as well as an abbot and a bishop) includes a "dried and mummified crocodile" (although it's just stuffed in a barrel, not hanging from the ceiling), along with assorted books, papers, jars, bottles, and "mysterious little boxes with labels in Latin". | |
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Stranger at the Wedding (1994) by Barbara Hambly: The dog wizard Tibbeth's shop includes a mummified crocodile hanging from the rafters. The trope is played with, in that it is a common wizard's prop in-universe, and its use is eventually explained — it's hanging until it is entirely mummified, at which point it will be cut to pieces for use in potions and replaced by a fresh one. | |
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