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"For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation": American Blood Falls : An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012, EPUB eBook

"For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation": American Blood Falls : An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012 EPUB

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Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad."

This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.

Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

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