Assertion: salamander | /r/HasProperty | ascribed fantastic and occult qualities
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: as with many real creatures
type: OTHER
value: by pre-modern authors
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which, as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism.