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Cornemuse   Listen
noun
Cornemuse  n.  A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.






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"Cornemuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see in inanimate things animals, and in animals disguised men. M. Reville quotes in his Religions des Peuples Non-Civilise's, i. 64, the story of some Negroes, who, the first time they were shown a cornemuse, took the instrument for a beast, the two holes for its eyes. The Highlander who looted a watch at Prestonpans, and observing, "She's teed," sold it cheap when it ran down, was in the same psychological condition. A queer bit of savage science is displayed on a black stone tobacco-pipe from the ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang



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