The Devil's Dictionary: Salamander
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
SALAMANDER
-n.
Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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