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The Cloven Foot
Cover of the Maxwell edition
AuthorMary Elizabeth Braddon
LanguageEnglish
GenreSensation novel, detective fiction
PublisherJohn and Robert Maxwell
Publication date
1879
Media typePrint
Pages352 pp (Maxwell edition)

The Cloven Foot is an 1879 book by Mary Elizabeth Braddon that combines aspects of the sensation novel and detective novel, and may even be considered an early legal thriller.

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mythical creatures in Ladin folklore, which are traditionally depicted as cloven-footed water nymphs with beautiful faces and long breasts. They were said to...

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History of the Jews in China

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Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

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each cloven foot descends, And round and round her flexile neck she bends, Crops the grey coral moss, and hoary thyme, Or laps with rosy tongue the melting...

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Hoof

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together called a cloven hoof. Most of these cloven-hooved animals also have two smaller hooves called dewclaws a little further up the leg – these are...

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Christianity in China

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from animals without the cloven foot", Muslims were called "Hwuy who abstain from pork", Jews were called "Hwuy who extract the sinews". "Hwuy-tsze" (Hui...

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Samuel Morse

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Loftus Hall

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mysterious man had a cloven foot. It was then that Anne stood up and said to the man: "You have a cloven foot!" The man went up through the roof, leaving behind...

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Master of Animals

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Protective Master from the harp found at Ur, dated circa 2600 BCE Chlorite, Jiroft culture Iran, ca. 2500 BC, Bronze Age I a cloven-footed human flanked by...

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Jjokbari

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meaning is "A cloven foot". Jjok means a "piece" and bal means "feet" in Korean, and when combined it roughly translates to "split feet" or "cloven hoof". This...

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Ascension crake

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estridge), shortt billed, cloven footed, that can neither fly nor swymme. It most likely lived in the near-desert areas of the island and primarily ate...

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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charge we see the cloven foot of Jesuitism." He also announced that his next issue would be printed in Alton. Before he could move the press, an angry...

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Papasidero

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represented with some care. Folds in the skin of the neck are clear and the cloven foot is very accurately shown. Below the great figure of a bull, another...

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I am the Lord thy God

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[explicitly] worship Bacchus, the cloven footed Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry of long ago, but they worship the bottle just the same…Whether or not folks...

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Aristocracy of Norway

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Oslo,] I saw the cloven foot of despotism. I boasted to you that they had no viceroy in Norway, but these Grand Bailiffs, particularly the superior one...

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be a cloven-footed devil. It is generally agreed that copies collected in America (usually titled "The House Carpenter") were derived from "The Distressed...

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Robert Henry Newell

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(1864) The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers (Volume III; 1865; Letters 80–108) Avery Glibun, or Between Two Fires (1867) Smoked Glass (1868) The Cloven Foot (1870;...

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Samlesbury witches

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[priest] mistakes the face for the feete: For Chattox [one of the Pendle witches] and all her fellow witches agree, the Devill is cloven-footed: but Fancie...

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Janette Steer

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included The Cloven Foot (1890), Idols of the Heart (1890), All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1902), Geraldine Wants to Know (1911), and The Sphinx (1914)...

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Samuel Adams

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Massachusetts, characterized him as a devious Machiavellian with a "cloven Foot". Thomas Hutchinson, Adams's political foe, took his revenge in his History...

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Unicorn

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with a long straight horn with spiralling grooves, cloven hooves, and sometimes a goat's beard. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described...

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