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Hungary In The Older English Literature, by Antal Szerb |
"Hungary is often mentioned in the old English zoological books too. E.G. Topsell's Historie of Four-Footed Beastes, 1607, the famous "Elizabethan Zoo", knows about a Hungarian beast called Vncken, "which dwelleth in holes of the earth as conies do, the outward proportion whereof is like a weasel... it is reported that the breathing thereof vppon the face of man is venomous and pysonfull..." What kind of animal can that be? Maybe the toad the German name of which is Unke."More from the source: Hungarian Quarterly
10.07.2008
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