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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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    Among the positive qualities, ants and bees represent industry and cooperation from the Book of Proverbs and Aesop's fables to tales by Beatrix Potter. Insects including the dragonfly have symbolised harmony with nature, while the butterfly has represented happiness in springtime in Japanese Haiku , as well as the soul of a person who has died.

  4. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 5 of the miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014), "Mad Love", was inspired by a dream that show creator Patrick McHale had. In the events of the dream, Pat was house hunting and came across a secret library in one of the houses. As he explored further, he realized that he had entered someone else's home.

  5. Bhramari - Wikipedia

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    There, they all held a conference on how to kill the daitya who sought to overthrow them. While the deities conferred, Arunasura and his army invaded Devaloka. The daitya used the power of his penances to assume various forms and seized possession of the Chandra , Surya , Yama , Agni , and all the elemental deities.

  6. Peter's vision of a sheet with animals - Wikipedia

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    Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...

  7. 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.

  8. Insects in mythology - Wikipedia

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    In the English county of Devon, people once hurried to kill the first butterfly of the year, to avoid a year of bad luck. [28] In the Philippines, a lingering black butterfly or moth in the house is taken to mean a death in the family. [29] An Ancient Greek myth tells of the cithara player Eunomos ("Mr Goodtune"). During a competition, the ...

  9. Insects in ethics - Wikipedia

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    A common fruit fly; these insects are commonly used in scientific experiments. Insects and human ethical obligations towards them have been discussed by a number of writers and figures throughout history, many of whom, arguing from a variety of different perspectives, have contended that there exists a moral obligation towards not harming or killing insects.