Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber

Motif

Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F573

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general Malone PMLA XLIII 401.

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Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

Filed beside it

Extremely old person Dancers upon whom icicles hang Luminous person Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.)Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.)Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.)[First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)]Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Phantoms Person who never laughs Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning)Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5)Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

Travels with

Black man. (Cf. F548.1, F573.)

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