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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com


XLV. HOW A WOMAN WHO MISCARRIES.

When they would symbolise a woman who miscarries, they depict a MARE KICKING A WOLF; for not only by

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kicking a wolf does a mare miscarry, but it immediately miscarries if it should merely tread on the footstep of a wolf.


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