Well, considering that Central Florida is bear territory, maybe not.
But central Florida’s mosquito country, right? I’ll go with Chronos’ comfort argument, but for bugs.
I saw what you did there! 
Is it true that the Chinese would punish minor crimes by locking you in foot stocks, then coating the soles of your feet with honey? The village dogs would then be allowed to lick the honey off your feet-the tickling would rive you mad.
Domestic cows do indeed have very rough tongues. They are also ridiculously long and damned near prehensile.
But though it would probably make your feet very sore to be repeated licked by a bovine, I don,t buy the “to the bone” bit.
And bears don’t want tom lick your feet, they want that box of doughnuts you stashed for breakfast in bed. They might take a hunk out of you too, just for curiosity’s sake.
Getting one’s feet licked by a bear is not deadly by itself. What is deadly is then shoving one’s cock into the bear’s mouth, saying “now Smokey, I want more”.
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ok, that was pretty funny.
“Halp!!! Pede file!!!”
My friends uncle - not Persian - told him that some of the bears in California will sneak into your tent and toss your salad to death.
I think the point is that humans in the wild have a distinctive odor to predators, with the feet offering a most peculiar fragrance that is enticing to bears. Thus the panicked reaction when you awaken to a bear licking your feet, and then you die (hopefully not).
The bears are just trying to find out how many licks it takes to get to the chewy center.
It doesn’t rank high as a cause of death: xkcd: Dangers
Possibly the tongues / saliva of bears contains bacteria deadly to human feet??
Not an aneurysm, an intracranial thrombophlebitis:
Up here in Alaska where we have black bears, grizzly/brown bears, polar bears, and Kermode’s bear (basically, a whitish black bear) and where I have hiked and camped for several decades I’ve never heard of that problem. As someone pointed out…and especially up here in the summer…you wouldn’t have your feet exposed or the mosquitoes would drain you empty by morning. By the time the bugs are gone, it’s too cool to sleep with your feet outside your sleeping bag.
I think this falls under the “put salt on a bird’s tail to catch it” genre, in that if a bear is that close to your exposed feet the least you have to worry about is it licking them.
(Unless there’s a species of bear that specializes in deriving energy from that practice. You know…maybe a sole-r polar bear.)(Groan)
I distinctly remember seeing on TV, **Sherman Hemsley **-either on an episode of the Jeffersons or Amen- and a bear licking his feet.
There didn’t appear to be any stunt double or video tomfoolery and I don’t know how the bear felt about it—I guess like any good actor, certain sacrifices for one’s craft are to be expected.
Not sure what this proves but there you have it.
Three.
Of course bares want to lick bear feet. No one could bare that kind of tickle torture. I can bearly think of it without shuddering. Surviving that kind of shock would be a feat in itself.
Bears and bare feet. I’m going to keep checking this one.
BTW: My wife and I constantly discuss the danger of “fan death”.
I remember reading somewhere that an old Chinese form of torture consisted of soaking the victim’s legs in salt water for a long time and let a few goats lick the legs afterwards. Not sure if they were supposed to lick it “to the bone”, though, and as I can’t remember the source, take the anecdote with a grain of salt.
I didn’t know we had to pick.
Regards,
Shodan
You bet there are people who like that kind of thing… dip your feet in honey and wait for the bears to come…
Like stinky cheese, no doubt.