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Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture -- Details Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ed in the way the wolf hunts for food. It will approach the sheep-folds by night against a wind, so that the dogs may not scent it, and if it makes any accidental noise with its feet, it will bite the offending member severely. In the 14th Cent. Bestiary in the British Museum (Slo. 3544) the wolf is drawn biting its paw. A dog is giving the alarm from a fold which contains three sheep, and a man is sounding a horn for help just behind. It was thought that the wolf would make a man lose his voice if it sees him with his mouth open, but if the man sees the wolf with its mouth shut, then the latter can open its mouth no more. When hungry it fills its stomach with a ball of clay, which it disgorges with the aid of its paw when food is forthcoming. Albertus Magnus, in his work on animals, states that when the wolf is moving amongst undergrowth it licks its paws till they are soft and slippery, so that none may hear its approach, and also that the wolf will put its paw to its mouth (much as small boys do, we no
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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE suppose, when they are about to make an unearthly noise) so as to change its voice and frighten the shepherds by its curious tones. It is thought that there is a carving of a wolf on a Norman tympanum at Stockton, Worcester. His head is to be seen on the corners of the fonts of South Wootton and Toftrees, and also on a similar font at Shernborne. All these three churches are in Norfolk. 113 CHAPTER VII THE CHARADRIUS, COCK AND HEN, DOVE In the Vulgate and Septuagint versions of Deut. xiv. 18 the Jews were forbidden to eat the flesh of the charadrius among other birds. Liddell and Scott write of the charadrius as being a stone curlew, or thick-kneed bustard, which is very greedy. The sight of it was supposed by the Greeks to cure the jaundice. In the Bestiaries this bird is drawn like a white thrush or plover, though in some cases it is represented as a huge bird with curly feathers, and long neck as in the mutilated Bestiary in the British Museum (Vit. D. 1). The charadrius

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