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Author(s) Title Reference
Kenneth Varty Métamorphose et bestiaire fantastique au moyen âge, Collection de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles, 28, by Laurence Harf-Lancner 57/1, p. 84
Rosemary Woolf The Phoenix, by N. F. Blake 34/3, p. 241

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