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The Geese That Saved Rome

GEESE

One of nature's scariest creatures


None were more afraid of these honking horrors than the Gauls who sacked Rome in 390 B.C.E.


It is said that as the Gaulish invaders were attempting to sneak in over the Capitoline Hill, they disturbed a flock of geese that were sacred to the goddess Juno.


The geese attacked the Gauls with such noise that they alerted the Romans, who rushed to beat down the invaders to their deaths.


From then on, the Romans stopped sacrificing geese to Juno and started honoring them as guardians of Rome.

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