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Animals admitted into Heaven (The)

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They are ten: (1) Jonah’s whale; (2) Solomon’s ant; (3) the ram caught by Abraham and sacrificed instead of Isaac; (4) the cuckoo of Belkis; (5) the camel of the prophet Saleh; (6) Balaam’s ass; (7) the ox of Moses; (8) the dog Kratim of the Seven Sleepers; (9) Mahomet’s ass, called Al Borak; and (10) Noah’s dove.

 

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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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Angle with a Silver Hook (To)
Angling
Angoulaffre
Angry (The)
An gular
Angurvadel
Anima Mundi [the soul of the world]
Animal
Animal Spirits
Animals admitted into Heaven (The)
Animals in Christian Art
Animals sacred to special Deities
Animals (Symbolical)
Animals (The cries of)
Animosity
Animula
Anna (Donna)
Annabel
Anna Matilda (An)
Annates