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Phoenix
of the phoenix, with variations, is also found in Herodotus (ii. 73), Pliny ( Nat. Hist. x.2), and used as above by Tertullian ( De Resurrectione
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Mermaid
, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, as born from the sea foam and rode to land on a half-scallop shell. In the 1st century CE, Pliny wrote convincingly
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Bonnacon
. More Detail: The beast was described by Pliny the Elder as having the general appearance of a bull, but had the mane of a horse, horns curved
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Poems
Priveste la mine Cu ochii tai,plini de onestitate Si-mi voi schimba culoarea petalelor mele in alb; Priveste la mine,plina de iubire Si-mi voi schimba
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Evil Eye
, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius. In Peter Walcot's Envy and the Greeks (1978) he
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guide to vampire's
was extinct. In the Seventh Book of the Historia Naturalis (liii, 52) Pliny relates many instances of persons who, being deemed dead, revived, and said
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