Myth-Land
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F. Edward Hulme is the author of Myth-Land. A verse credited to Whittier speaks of dragons and griffins and monsters dire, born of water, or air, or fire, that crawl, and wriggle, and foam with rage through dark tradition and ballad age. The preface says the nucleus of the following pages was originally written in the form of two short papers to be read at the meetings of a Public School Natural History Society.
One quoted account says cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to have the peculiar virtue of detecting poison in coffee and sherbet. The text says that in Wales we meet with the belief in a creature called Cyoeraeth, so named, we are told, from its deadly chilling voice. An index lists, among others, Adam, earliest botanist, and Adder, wilfully deaf.
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- F. Edward Hulme
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- 169
- Language
- English
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