Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 178
ationof being a terror to all its subjects, the most vene-mous serpents fleeing affrighted when they hear itshiss. It is hatched from the egg laid by a cock in theseventh year of its age, and it happens in this wise.When the egg has grown large, it produces anintense griping in the bowels of the… … Liberality and Avarice.(^Mamcscript in Mitsee dc Chtny.) 164 Animal Symbolism sooner is it bom than it hides itself in a crevice orcistern, or in the rafters of a house, so as not to beseen by any one ; for such is its nature that if a mansees it before it sees him, it will die, but if it seeshim…
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