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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Harpies

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Fabulous ravenous creatures, living in filth and defiling everything they touch, with the head and breast of a woman, the wings and claws of a bird, and a face pale with hunger, the personification of whirlwinds and storms, conceived of as merely ravening, wasting powers.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Harpies'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​h/harpies.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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