Author name: Elizabeth

The fox wants the grapes before he judges them. That order is the small engine of the fable. A desire […]

An animal does not carry one fixed symbolic meaning wherever it appears. A wolf nursing a city’s founders, a fox

A rabbit on the Moon, a rabbit’s foot in a pocket and a rabbit carrying a watch are not three

An elephant-headed deity and an elephant in a queen’s dream do not express the same religious idea. They offer two

A serpent coiled around a medical staff and a serpent putting its tail into its mouth offer different arrangements of

The lion is readily made into an image of authority. A large body, a commanding stance and a place above

A bear can be a formidable body, an absent presence in a winter den or the altered form of a

A deer can be pursued, protected or become the form into which a hunter is changed. Those are not variations

An owl on an Athenian coin and an owl heard during Macbeth’s night of murder do not offer the same