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- ↑ "The Angels of Punishment and The Fallen Angels". Archived from the original on 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2007-01-20.
- ↑ Davidson, Gustav (1967), A Dictionary of Angels, Including The Fallen Angels , Free Press, p. 41, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-19757, ISBN 9780029070505
- ↑ Wilson, D. B. (2009). "Counterfactual Christianity: myth and re-imagined religion in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy". Literature and Aesthetics. 19 (2): 236–261. Retrieved 2022-12-26– via Academia.edu.
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