. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . A Latin Bestiary {c. 1200) in one of the show-cases of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, dilateson its supposed fire-resisting properties, forit was thought that it could pass through fireunharmed. Another point from the sameBestiary is that it infects fruits with poisonwhen it touches them, so that all who eat thefruit die. In Slo. 3524, British Museum, the salaman-der is up a tree infecting the fruit. Two peopleare near ; one is eating the fruit and the othersuccumbing to the effects. According to Mr. E. P. Evans, the

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. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . A Latin Bestiary {c. 1200) in one of the show-cases of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, dilateson its supposed fire-resisting properties, forit was thought that it could pass through fireunharmed. Another point from the sameBestiary is that it infects fruits with poisonwhen it touches them, so that all who eat thefruit die. In Slo. 3524, British Museum, the salaman-der is up a tree infecting the fruit. Two peopleare near ; one is eating the fruit and the othersuccumbing to the effects. According to Mr. E. P. Evans, the sala-mander is a small frog-like reptile whichcan secrete poisonous fluid enough to extin-guish a coal. We have heard of no certainarchitectural example of the salamander,though Mr. Francis Bond mentions severalfonts which are reported to have the sala-mander on them. It is quite possible that themutilated hzard on the font at Loswithielwas intended for one. This httle reptile was considered to be atype of the righteous man who is notconsumed by the fires of temptation. 90.

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