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  2. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    The Roman gourmet Apicius offers 17 recipes for chicken, mainly boiled chicken with sauce. All parts of the animal are used: the recipes include the stomach, liver, testicles, and even the pygostyle. The Roman author Columella advises on chicken breeding in the eighth book of his treatise, De Re Rustica (On Agriculture). He commented on various ...

  3. Giblets - Wikipedia

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    Giblets / ˈ dʒ ɪ b l ɪ t s / is a culinary term for the edible offal of a fowl, typically including the heart, gizzard, liver, and other organs. [ 1 ] A whole bird from a butcher is often packaged with the giblets, sometimes sealed in a bag within the body cavity.

  4. German folklore - Wikipedia

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    It shares many characteristics with Nordic folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology.It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology; magical characters (sometimes recognizably pre-Christian) associated with Christian festivals, and various regional 'character' stories.

  5. List of Germanic deities - Wikipedia

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    A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.

  6. Germanic mythology - Wikipedia

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    Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was a key element of Germanic paganism .

  7. List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend

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    See also Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology. Belche Middle High German: Belche: From PGmc *balaz-, Gothic bals ("white"), referring to the mark on the horse's forehead. [3] Dietleib von Steier's horse, which is from the same stud as Dietrich von Bern's horse Valke. [3] Blanke Middle High German: Blanke, Old Norse: Blanka

  8. Deutsche Mythologie - Wikipedia

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    Deutsche Mythologie (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə mytoloˈɡiː], Teutonic Mythology) is a treatise on Germanic mythology by Jacob Grimm.First published in Germany in 1835, the work is an exhaustive treatment of the subject, tracing the mythology and beliefs of the ancient Germanic peoples from their earliest attestations to their survivals in modern traditions, folktales and popular expressions.

  9. Proto-Germanic folklore - Wikipedia

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    Meaning 'edge-servant'. [1] [2]Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor suggest that the name may have referred to an arouser of great battles and feuds, [3] although other scholars remain skeptical about drawing a mythological parallel between Old English and Old Norsel.