THE DEVIL AND THE PEACOCK.
" The Arabs," says Bechart, " denominate the peacock as a bird of illomen, for the following reasons : it was the cause of the first entrance of the Devil into Paradise, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve. They also relate that the Devil watered the vine with the blood of four animals. First, with tbat of a peacock, and when the vine began to put. forth leaves with that of an ape ; when the grapes began to appear with that ot a lion ; and lastly, when they were quite ripe,, with that of a hog, which is the reason, say they, tbat the wine-bibber first struts about like a peacock, then begins to dance, play, and make grimaces like an ape, then rages like a lion, and, lastly, lies down in a ditch like a hog.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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140THE DEVIL iSND THE PEACOCK. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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