The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... myth and legend . It would be necessary for the student of aprocryphal animals to follow a proper scientific method in his researches , classifying according to type and origin the various creatures of myth and legend . He admitted that ...
... myth and legend . It would be necessary for the student of aprocryphal animals to follow a proper scientific method in his researches , classifying according to type and origin the various creatures of myth and legend . He admitted that ...
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... myth , was correct . But the emperor was a little too exact in saying that the Barnacles clinging to the wood ' bore no resemblance to any avian body ' . The real trouble was that they did , as we shall see . However , once the myth of ...
... myth , was correct . But the emperor was a little too exact in saying that the Barnacles clinging to the wood ' bore no resemblance to any avian body ' . The real trouble was that they did , as we shall see . However , once the myth of ...
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... myth . Many of the later accounts of the Barnacle Goose myth were not taken from Gerald , but from the description by Hector Boece in his quite credulous History of Scotland , where he also gives one of the earliest accounts of a ...
... myth . Many of the later accounts of the Barnacle Goose myth were not taken from Gerald , but from the description by Hector Boece in his quite credulous History of Scotland , where he also gives one of the earliest accounts of a ...
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Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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