Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs)

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Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs).

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Other mythical animals. · view the constellation · filed as B95.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general Laufer JAFL XXVIII 124.

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Filed under Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones.

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Marine lamb. Wool taken from sea lamb. (Really textiles from shell-fish pinna)

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