Lies about ferocious insects — Mythoi

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Lies about ferocious insects.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1280.2

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Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left

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The Great Insect · ATU 1960M2 recorded variants