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Re:Natural Magick (1584) by mojomark on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:16PM (#21196685)
Agree - this kind of sounds like the description someone might ascribe to a sometype of mudskipper [1] or perhaps tadpoles [2] emerging from a drying creek bed (Re: "[when the] Nilus overflowing is past, the Sun heating the wet ground, the chaps of the earth send forth great store of Mice").

1.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper

2.) https://images.app.goo.gl/NFuudEfvAfUoFRhP7

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Re:Natural Magick (1584) by jonathankoren on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:53PM (#21198889)
Yeah, but frogs and tadpoles are common across the world, so I find it hard to believe that the writer was not aware of tadpoles.

Out right falsehoods were not uncommonly produced as true facts of distant lands. For example, it is common knowledge that Ethiopians and natives of of the Indian subcontinent do not have heads, but rather have their face embedded directly into their chest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_men

Or if that is too fanciful, consider that the salamander’s natural habitat is fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanders_in_folklore

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