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... Schwartz , Ndd . - Norddeutsche Sagen , Märchen und Gebräuche . Leipzig , 1848 . Liebrecht , G. T. — Der Gervasius von Tilbury Otia Imperialia . Hanover , 1856 . Mannhardt , Die Götterwelt der Deutschen und Nordischen Völker . Berlin ...
... Schwartz , Ndd . - Norddeutsche Sagen , Märchen und Gebräuche . Leipzig , 1848 . Liebrecht , G. T. — Der Gervasius von Tilbury Otia Imperialia . Hanover , 1856 . Mannhardt , Die Götterwelt der Deutschen und Nordischen Völker . Berlin ...
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... combine the flight of birds with the form of creeping things , * Nearly all the Sanscrit words for rock , stone , cliff , crag , & c . , signify also cloud . Schwartz , U. M. 12 . BRUTE GODS . 9 and then the heavenly fauna was.
... combine the flight of birds with the form of creeping things , * Nearly all the Sanscrit words for rock , stone , cliff , crag , & c . , signify also cloud . Schwartz , U. M. 12 . BRUTE GODS . 9 and then the heavenly fauna was.
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... , and he is banned by the power of nature's magic . The stork must needs be a supernatural being , like the Manx wren and the picus or woodpecker . * Kuhn u . Schwartz , Ndd . p . 14 . 94 + STORKS ARE MEN . LADYBIRD . He too.
... , and he is banned by the power of nature's magic . The stork must needs be a supernatural being , like the Manx wren and the picus or woodpecker . * Kuhn u . Schwartz , Ndd . p . 14 . 94 + STORKS ARE MEN . LADYBIRD . He too.
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... Schwartz has noticed , * as a casualty which frequently befalls the stormgods and demigods , the loss of their thick clustering locks in the elemental strife . It would be quite in accordance with all that is known to us of the natural ...
... Schwartz has noticed , * as a casualty which frequently befalls the stormgods and demigods , the loss of their thick clustering locks in the elemental strife . It would be quite in accordance with all that is known to us of the natural ...
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... Edward " ( her brother ) . She had hardly said the word when a man on horseback rode up and said , * D.M. 788 . + Kuhn und Schwartz , Ndd . p . 436 . Liebrecht , Gerv . Tilb . p . 115 . THE CUCKOO . 105 when S. opened the door to.
... Edward " ( her brother ) . She had hardly said the word when a man on horseback rode up and said , * D.M. 788 . + Kuhn und Schwartz , Ndd . p . 436 . Liebrecht , Gerv . Tilb . p . 115 . THE CUCKOO . 105 when S. opened the door to.
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