Brewer's: Furor

Son of Occasion, an old hag, who was quite bald behind. Sir Guyon bound him “with a hundred iron chains and a hundred knots.” (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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