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chasing the insects which in the twilight are attracted 

 by the cattle feeding in the meadows. Other epithets, 

 less common, are linked with darker legends. Its old 

 English name of lick-fowl shows that its appearance 

 was regarded with no common dread. In Danish myth 

 it is Helrakke, the death-hound. Other old world tra- 

 ditions saw in its innocent form "the soul of an 

 unbaptised infant, doomed to wander for ever in the 

 air." 



