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- ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Body-Snatching". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 112.
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