Absurdity or Reality: Part 1

"...was also the only forest in the whole universe to be called - in the local language - Your Finger You Fool, which was the literal meaning of the word Skund.
The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea traveled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalized in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.
Rainclouds clustered around the bald heights of Mt. Oolskunrahod ('Who is this Fool who does Not Know what a Mountain Is')..."
-The Light Fantastic


*All quotes for this series are taken from novels by Terry Pratchett but be careful what you mock as pure fiction because, though much of what he writes is fanciful works of imagination, he often incorporates actual beliefs of the peoples of this world. So I leave it for you to decided what is absurdity or reality.