Meaning of peridexion | Babel Free

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A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.

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“The inscription appears to represent a very rare medieval allegory for the church, found in only a very few medieval manuscripts and known as the peridexion tree. The story is that the peridexion tree was to be found only in far-off India, and that it bore the most marvellously sweet fruit that attracted birds to its branches from far and wide. However, at the base of the tree lived a dragon or serpent.”

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