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"Mediaeval Catholicism," says Vaupell, "brought us the red horsehoof whose reddish-brown flower buds shoot up from the ground when the snow melts, and are followed by the large leaves comfrey and snake-root, which grow only where there were convents and other dwellings in the Middle Ages." Introduction of Foreign Plants.
I was surprised to learn that there was no record of any person having been injured by these monstrous creatures. Another meibutsu of Oki is much less known than it deserves to be the beautiful jet-black stone called bateiseki, or 'horsehoof stone. It is found only in Dogo, and never in large masses.
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