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“Psyche” means the soul, but actually the ancient Greek word for psyche was synonymous with butterfly, because butterflies and flies, which were always seen around dead bodies, were thought to carry souls and originally the idea was that a woman who swallowed a fly, would become pregnant. So the old woman who swallowed a fly, for example, pro…
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