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In Egyptian mythology, similar to the Hermēs of Greece, whose office it was to take the souls of the dead before the judge of the infernal regions. Anuʹbis is represented with a human body and jackal’s head.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.