If a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies.
Of The Book of Beasts, White writes: "No.
White, author of The Once and Future King and outstanding medievalist.
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The translator is T.
These and similar flights of fancy were articles of faith in the Twelfth Century the era of the fascinating Latin prose Bestiary translated in this volume.
If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor.
Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites.
If a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies