The ears were cut off with an ax - so the nodding went before

Did you think your zeroing was hard? It was actually worse in the past. And if you were really unlucky you could lose an ear or two.

"Once upon a time, a council of the son should have gotten rid of an ear in connection with a deposit," says Per Ström, an academic curator at Uppsala University.

In an glass booth at Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum, lies an ax, a couple of pig bites and a wooden tong. The objects are deposit tools from the 16th and 16th centuries and tell a story about how the zeroing was done at the university in the past.

- The new students would then put on donkey ears and pig pastures which would then be cut off. Symbolically, one would be planed to.

In the clip you can see more about how the zeroing was done in Uppsala in the past.