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  • The scarabus beetle, for instance, one can hardly keep the creatures away from any place where there is Healing magic present.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • The conception of Khopri as a disk enclosing a scarabæus, or a man with a scarabous upon his head, or a scarabus-headed mummy, was suggested by the accidental alliteration of his name and that of Khopirrû, the scarabæus.

    History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881

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