Friday, May 26, 2006

Diet of Worms

It was round about today's date in 1521 that the Holy Roman Emperor banned the writings of Martin Luther after the Diet of Worms; this set the stage for the Reformation in Europe and prompted Martin Luther to pen perhaps his most famous piece of writing:

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me

Think I'll go and eat worms
Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones
See how they wriggle and squirm

1 comment:

HistoryElephant said...

It's important to clean your worm every day