Myths and Legends

May or Maynot be True

An earlier version of the Cinderella story is this:- An eagle dropped a golden sandal over Memphis, where a Pharoah was holding a court of Justice, and the man fell so in love with the sandal that he sent his men far and wide to discover the owner. And it turned out to be hetaira Rhodrope, who lived in the city of Naucratis, and they bought her along to Memphis and Pharaoh married her, and they lived happily ever after

Kissing a persons foot is a sign of submission and humiliation, in erotic terms masochism

The foot is a symbol of power and the law. The victor used to place his foot on the neck of the vanquished

The foot is a fertility symbol, because it is in contact with mother earth

Leonardo da Vinci called the foot a Masterpiece of Engineering

Bill Clinton has the biggest feet of any US President since Woodrow Wilson.

A human being in his or her seventies will have walked nearly 70,000 miles.

The ‘Ostrich People’ of the Wadomo and Kalanga tribes of Africa inherit the ‘two-toed syndrome’ via a mutated gene. They are not handicapped by the deformity.

Walking on hot coals is not supernatural. Helpful factors, the skin on the soles of the feet is very thick, the feet are kept flat, spreading heat, fire walkers walk very quickly.

A World Walkers feet ‘evolved’ as she trekked across Africa. Her big toe bones split in two making it easier to walk.

Until the 20th Century many Chinese women had their feet tightly bound in early childhood to form ‘golden lily’ feet no more than four inches long.

The largest feet are in America and are size 28.

Have you heard of a ‘Cow Chiropodist’

An Aborigine can follow a bare foot trail by scent alone.

The average person takes 18,000 steps a day.

Smokers can be diagnosed by their cold, dry feet as smoking inhibits the delivery of oxygen to the extremities.

Coco Chanel always painted her toenails in preference to her fingernails believing dreary feet needed all the help they could get.

The only way a stiletto stays on is by being too small for the foot that wears it.

Actress Cyd Charisse had a £1.8 million insurance policy on her legs.

The longest toenails reached 2.2m (7ft 3in).

With every mile we walk we shift approximately one hundred tonnes (the weight of a blue whale), just to move our own bodyweight forward.