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according to Scandinavian mythology. A black cock is likewise said to crow in the _Niflheim_, or
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Workes of Armourie (1597), says:--
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The lyon dreadeth the white cocke, because he breedeth a precious stone called allectricium, like to the stone that bright Calcedonius, and for that the cocke beareth such a stone, the lyon specially abhorreth him.
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General Collection of Voyages and Travels. In the
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Voyage to Congo, a Capuchin
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named Father Morolla, relates the following remarkable incident with the utmost gravity and evidently with perfect faith in the veracity of the story:--On the capture of a certain town by the army of Sogno, a large cock was found with an iron ring attached to one of its legs. The unfortunate rooster was speedily placed in the pot and boiled in the most orthodox fashion. When, however, his captors were about to commence their improvised feast, to their astonishment the cooked
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laid by an aged cock, and hatched by a toad. The monster had the head and breast of the dunghill champion, and
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Medycine Boke, belonging to Dr. Sampson Jones, of Bettws, Monmouthshire (1650-90), is the following strange recipe, entitled,
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Cock water for a consumption and cough of the lungs :--
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Take a running cock and pull (pluck) him alive, then kill him and cutt him in pieces and take out his intrals and wipe him cleane, breake the bones, then put him into an ordinary still with a pottle of sack and a pottle of red cow's milk,