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In " Miracles of Art and Nature," there is a little beast called the Lomie, "which hath hanging under its neck
a bladder always full of scalding water, with which, when she is hunted, she so tortureth the dogs that she thereby easily makes her escape." Elsewhere he tells of four-footed serpents, strange creatures that, unlike many of his wonders-only to be found in Peru or India, or such like distant lands-are to be seen ' as near home as Poland. The people of Poland, We are told, are " boysterous, rude, and barbarous ; nourishing amongst them a kind of four-footed serpent, above three handfuls in length, which they worship as their household gods, tending them with fear and reverence when they call them out to their repasts ; and if any mischance do happen to any of their family it is imputed presently to some want of due observations of these ugly creatures."
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