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handful of earth

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handful of earth

symbol of mortality. [Folklore: Jobes, 486]

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Then he stooped and gathered a handful of earth, and murmured some words over it, after which he threw the earth in my face, saying as he did so, "Quit the form of a man, and assume that of a monkey.

The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context

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