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Thread #159967   Message #3791686
Posted By: Richie
23-May-16 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Molly Bawn (Polly Vaughn)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Molly Bawn (Polly Vaughn)
She appears as a "fawn" in the 1857 parody "Molly Von Luther":

"My apron being around me, he took me for a fawn,
But oh, and alas! it was I, Polly Von."

What is the earliest version with "fawn"?

Does anyone have a copy or translation of C. Robert's early version of the myth of Cephalus and Procris where they are hunting in the woods (not Ovid's version)?

Has anyone done ant research or have information on the theriomorphic soul regarding the Irish belief that birds flying at night are souls in animal form? An example is found in "Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland" (1920):

"There was a man used to go out fowling, and one day his sister said to him, "Whatever you do don't go out tonight and don't shoot any wild duck or any birds you see flying— for tonight they are all poor souls travelling."

Richie