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Bidendal (or Bidental)

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Bidendal (Or Bidental)

in pagan superstition, is a popular appellation given to any place stricken with a thunderbolt, and on that account held too sacred to be trodden on. The Romans, believing that an evidence that Jupiter claimed such a place for himself, surrounded it with a wall, rail, stakes, or even a rope, and expiated by the sacrifice of a bidens, or two-year-old sheep.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bidendal (or Bidental)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/bidendal-or-bidental.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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