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  2. Bugonia - Wikipedia

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    A detailed description of the bugonia process can be found in Byzantine Geoponica: [1]. Build a house, ten cubits high, with all the sides of equal dimensions, with one door, and four windows, one on each side; put an ox into it, thirty months old, very fat and fleshy; let a number of young men kill him by beating him violently with clubs, so as to mangle both flesh and bones, but taking care ...

  3. Insects in literature - Wikipedia

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    The poet W. B. Yeats wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1888) with the honey bee couplet "Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, / And live alone in the bee loud glade", while he was living in Bedford Park, London. [5] Japanese tsuba with a dragonfly, 1931: Shibuichi with gold and silver, Walters Art Museum

  4. The Bees (novel) - Wikipedia

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    A further social role is being a member of the "fertility police", who kill infirm or deviant bees. A regular feature of the bees' day is "Devotion", when the Queen's scent permeates the hive, the bees hum the Holy Chord, and the sisters of the hive experience a sense of union with one another and with their Holy Mother the Queen.

  5. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Full translations of "Jabberwocky" into French and German can be found in The Annotated Alice along with a discussion of why some translation decisions were made. [34] Chao Yuen Ren , a Chinese linguist, translated the poem into Chinese [ 35 ] by inventing characters to imitate what Rob Gifford of National Public Radio refers to as the "slithy ...

  6. Dreams and visions in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    The dream vision or visio is a major literary device in early medieval literature, especially but not only in the genre of visionary literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Amy Amendt-Raduege writes that medieval dream visions, such as those of Geoffrey Chaucer , or those in the Chanson de Roland , the Roman de la Rose , and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...

  7. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    In a tweet from July 2024, Drew Daniel of electronic music duo Matmos described a fictional music genre he encountered in a dream entitled "hit em". Recounted to him by a nondescript woman in the dream, the genre is a type of electronic music "with super crunched out sounds" in a 5/4 time signature with a tempo of 212 beats per minute.

  8. Bhramari - Wikipedia

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    Even Shiva was unable to defeat him. Adi Shakti then appeared behind Shiva, and grew to a massive size, emanating bees from her four hands. Her three eyes shone like the sun, the moon, and the eternal fire Agni. She closed her eyes in concentration, summoning forth countless bees, hornets, wasps, flies, termites, mosquitos and spiders from the ...

  9. The Secret Life of Bees (novel) - Wikipedia

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    This can be connected to the black community and specifically the Boatwright sisters in this novel. Bees are very organized, and every bee needs to do its job. In the novel, there is a quote which says, “when a queen bee is taken from a hive, the other bees notice her absence” and it is very similar with the Boatwright sisters.