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Zelencides

The zelencides voraciously eats locusts. When the inhabitants of a land suffer a plague of locusts, they pray to their gods that they send the zelencides birds, which will eat all the insects.

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Lippische Landesbibliothek Digital Collection

Manuscript

Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 (Der Naturen Bloeme), folio 77r

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