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... body and points out analogies with animals . A man with curved toes and nails is impudent as are similar birds . A long , thin neck makes one cowardly like a deer . Large cowlike eyes are signs 粘 of lethargy ; hollow eyes , of the ...
... body and points out analogies with animals . A man with curved toes and nails is impudent as are similar birds . A long , thin neck makes one cowardly like a deer . Large cowlike eyes are signs 粘 of lethargy ; hollow eyes , of the ...
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... body , but the soul was immutable . The metamorphosis of Man into animal often retained the human soul , as in the case of Apuleius's Lucio , who kept a human soul in an ass's body or the werewolf who protected St. Edward the Martyr's ...
... body , but the soul was immutable . The metamorphosis of Man into animal often retained the human soul , as in the case of Apuleius's Lucio , who kept a human soul in an ass's body or the werewolf who protected St. Edward the Martyr's ...
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... bodies , that they sometimes came forth in serpentine forms . " ) ; Aristotle : mentions presence of the " wind - egg ... body in figure ; Heraldry : cockatrice shown in this form ; ( Robin thinks general opinion may have accepted the ...
... bodies , that they sometimes came forth in serpentine forms . " ) ; Aristotle : mentions presence of the " wind - egg ... body in figure ; Heraldry : cockatrice shown in this form ; ( Robin thinks general opinion may have accepted the ...
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