Cow
The cow that nourished Ymir with four streams of milk was
called Audhumla. (Scandinavian mythology.) (See
Audhumla.)
Curst cows. (See under Curst.) The whiter the cow, the surer is it to go to the altar.
The richer the prey, the more likely is it to be seized.
“The system of impropriations grew so rapidly that, in the course of
three centuries, more than a third part of all the benefices in England
became such, and those the richest, for the whiter the cow, the surer
was it to go to the alter.” —Blant: Reformation in England, p.
63.
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