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Demonology and devil-lore (1879)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 135

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ils Punch-bowls of Europe,and the innumerable Devils Dikes and Ditches. St. ^ De Plancv.VOL. I. „ IT4 THE HYDRA. Gerards Hill, near Pesth, on which the saint sufferedmartyrdom, is believed to be crowded with devils when-ever an inundation threatens the city; they indulge infiendish laughter, and… … Fig. 6.—Hercules and the Hydra (Louvre). inhabitants use as a sewer while it is dry, making it aGehenna to poison them with stenches, but which oftenbecomes a devastating torrent when thaw comes on theBlocksberg. In 1874 the inhabitants vaulted it over tokeep away the normal stench, but the…

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