Editing Barnacle (section)

=== In culture ===

{{further|Barnacle goose myth}}

One version of the [[barnacle goose]] myth is that the birds emerge fully formed from goose barnacles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sercblog.si.edu/science-superstition-and-the-goose-barnacle/ |title=Science, Superstition and the Goose Barnacle |first=Kristen |last=Minogue |date=29 January 2013 |publisher=[[Smithsonian Environmental Research Center]] |access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=van der Lugt |first=M. |year=2000 |title=Animal légendaire et discours savant médiéval. La barnacle dans tous ses états |language=French |trans-title=Legendary animal and medieval learned discourse: the barnacle in all its states |journal=Micrologus |volume=8 |pages=351–393 |url=https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00175458/file/vanderLugt-BARNACLE.pdf}}</ref> The myth, with variants such as that the goose barnacles grow on trees<!--henceBotanic Garden interest in the tale-->, owes its longstanding popularity to ignorance of [[bird migration]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kenicer |first=G. J. |year=2020 |title=Plant Magic |location=Edinburgh |publisher=[[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]] |pages=150–151}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mayntz |first=M. |year=2020 |title=Migration: Exploring the Remarkable Journeys of Birds |location=London |publisher=Quadrille |pages=110–111}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lappo |first1=E. G. |last2=Popovkina |first2=A. B. |last3=Mooij |first3=J. H. |year=2019 |title=About geese growing on trees: the Medieval interpretation of the Barnacle and Brent goose origin |journal=Goose Bulletin |issue=24 |pages=8–21 |url=https://cms.geese.org/sites/default/files/Goose%20Bulletin24.pdf}}</ref> The myth survived to modern times through [[Bestiary|bestiaries]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sprouse |first=S. J. |year=2015 |title=The Associative Branches of the Irish Barnacle: Gerald of Wales and the Natural World |journal=Hortulus |volume=11 |issue=2}}</ref>

More recently, Barnacle Bill became a "comic folktype"<ref name="Bronner 2019"/> of a seaman, with [[Barnacle Bill the Sailor|a drinking song]]<ref name="Bronner 2019">{{cite book |last=Bronner |first=Simon J. |title=The Practice of Folklore |chapter=“Who’s That Knocking at My Door?”: Barnacle Bill Again and Again |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |date=2019-08-15 |isbn=978-1-4968-2262-8 |doi=10.14325/mississippi/9781496822628.003.0007 |pages=152–198|s2cid=212949243 }}</ref> and several films ([[Barnacle Bill (1930 film)|a 1930 animated short with Betty Boop]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |page=142}}</ref> [[Barnacle Bill (1935 film)|a 1935 British drama]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Barnacle Bill (1935) |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/143535 |publisher=BFI |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116104139/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/143535 |access-date=18 February 2024|archive-date=2009-01-16 }}</ref> a [[Barnacle Bill (1941 film)|1941 feature with Wallace Beery]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Barnacle Bill (1941) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/barnacle-bill-vm473797 |website=AllMovie |access-date=18 February 2024}}</ref> and [[Barnacle Bill (1957 film)|a 1957 Ealing comedy]]<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Barnacle Bill |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150025183 |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref>) named after him.

The political reformer [[John W. Gardner]] likened middle managers who settle into a comfortable position and "have stopped learning or growing" to the barnacle, who "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides... it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock".<ref name="Gardner 1990">{{cite web |last=Gardner |first=John W. |author-link=John W. Gardner |title=John Gardner's writings: "Personal Renewal" |url=https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/sections/writings_speech_1.html |publisher=PBS |access-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011105005848/https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/sections/writings_speech_1.html |archive-date=5 November 2001 |date=10 November 1990 |quote=Delivered to McKinsey & Company, Phoenix, AZ November 10, 1990}}</ref>

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File:Percebes.iguaria.jpg|A dish of [[goose barnacle]]s in a restaurant in Spain 
File:The "Barnacle Geese" being born then swimming away. Wellcome M0005645.jpg|[[Barnacle goose|Barnacle geese]] being "born" from {{lang|la|conchae anatiferae}} (goose-bearing shells) by the sea, then swimming away. [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]], 16th century 
File:Wallace Beery in Barnacle Bill (1941).png|[[Wallace Beery]] as the title character in ''[[Barnacle Bill (1941 film)|Barnacle Bill (1941)]]''
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