When looking at the Mediaeval Latin manuscripts you can't help noticing illustrations in the margins (marginalia) which don't always have anything to do with the main text.
Nobody is quite sure why they're there: maybe they're designed to add a bit of light-heartedness to otherwise dry content or maybe they want to poke fun at useless knights or show a world that's upside down, a world where people are attacked or killed by what we would normally consider harmless.
Here are a few examples showing that they didn't always take everything seriously: Mediaeval killer rabbits, and snails to be feared!
If you're a fan of the Monty Python movies, they pick up on this with the "killer bunny" scene in the "Holy Grail", doing what the original illustrations were possibly doing i.e. satirizing King Arthur and his knights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
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