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They most feared not ancient spirits but stumbling into unseen holes, and the ever-present fluttering chauve-souris bats, which swooped around their heads by the hundreds.
Denon in Egypt James Gurney 2009
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They most feared not ancient spirits but stumbling into unseen holes, and the ever-present fluttering chauve-souris bats, which swooped around their heads by the hundreds.
Archive 2009-01-01 James Gurney 2009
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Did you know that the French word for a bat (the flying rodent, not the thing you hit balls with) is un chauve-souris?
News in brief and excuse my French « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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Cette nouvelle adaptation de la célèbre chauve-souris a coûté 27'000 dollars, pour un tournage qui a duré 21 jours.
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Oeillets et l'homme mirent chacun d'une poudre de sang de chauve-souris et de la farine pour donner un corps plus ferme à toute la composition et après qu'il eut récité la conjuration il tira le tout du calice qui fut mis dans un petit vaisseau que la Des Oeillets ou l'homme emporta. '[
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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