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.....,-**£ [picture of a deer head, in a garland £**-,.....
....,-**£& woven of various grasses. &£**-,....
...,-**£&@ the deer has a crown of rowan, and is @&£**-,...
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......,-** in the north, the deer is often used as **-,......
.......,-* a symbol for the forest's agency, or *-,.......
........,- its self-knowledge. watching eyes. -,........
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.......... warmer regions instead ascribe it the ..........
.......... knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or ..........
.......... obsession (unblinking eyes, always ..........
........., awake, scrapie-like behavior). ,.........
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...,-**£&@ the deer is a cross between a horse and @&£**-,...
..,-**£&@# a dog. it bears a resemblance to a #@&£**-,..
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..,-**£&@# sweet-smelling nose, like honey. #@&£**-,..
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....,-**£& the horns of a deer is called antlers. &£**-,....
.....,-**£ they have a complex fractal shape, and £**-,.....
......,-** are believed to enable the deer to **-,......
.......,-* "fold" through passages which should be *-,.......
........,- too narrow for them. antlers from dead -,........
........., deer seem to lose this power. ,.........
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.......... a deer's heart has two chambers, where ..........
.......... it stores all the secrets it might see ..........
........., during the course of it's life. with ,.........
........,- age the secrets will harden into a -,........
.......,-* caramellized structure, which will *-,.......
......,-** eventually block the flow of blood, and **-,......
.....,-**£ kill the deer. £**-,.....
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.....,-**£ antlers are bloodied.] £**-,.....
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