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Lizard (The)

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Supposed, at one time, to be venomous, and hence a “lizard’s leg” was an ingredient of the witch’s cauldron in Macbeth.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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