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devoured by it. Its supposed antipathy to snakes is thus 

 referred to by an ancient Scottish poet : 



The Cygonie that foul so whyte 

 Quhilk at the serpents hes despyte 

 Come granen to the ground. 1 



1 Burel's Pilg., Watson's Coll., ii. 27. From Jamieson's Scot. Diet. 







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