once pristine:
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the story is also in Attar's Parliament of the Birds '(twelfth century) long before its appearance in Switzerland; and the Germanic archer guilds (if we can trust Malleus Maleficarum, a witch-hunting manual of 1460), shot "in the Devil's name" at apples similarly placed suggests Saracen influence.' —Robert Graves |
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