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in fire. And a certain kind of Salamander hath rough 
skin and hairy, as the skin of the sea seal; of the which 
skin be sometime girdles made for the use of kings; the 
which girdles when they be full old be thrown into the 
fire harmless, and without wem [blemish] purged, and as it. 
were renewed, and of that skin be tongues and bonds 
[wicks] made in lamps and in lanterns that be never 
corrupt with burning of fire. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk, xviii. § 92. 
Ir he creepeth on a tree, he infecteth all the apples, and 
slayeth them that eat thereof, and if he falleth into a pit, 
he siayeth all that drink of the water. 
Ibid. bk. xviii. § 9. 
Tue Salamander naturally loveth milk, and therefore, 
sometimes in the woods or near hedges, it sucketh a cow 
that is laid, but afterwards that cow’s udder or stock drieth 
up, and never more yieldeth any milk. It is not bred of 
the fire as crickets are. 
Topsell, “History of Serpents,” pp. 747-8. 
