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I have legs but seldom walkอพ I backbite many but never talkอพ I seek places that can hide me because those that feed me cannot abide me
Tall when seated, short when standing.
Known as a great deceiver, It is evil's incarnation, Once used for veneration, The root of all procreation. All you can do is shiver, When it begins to slither.
I have big ears and a trunk and I never forget. What am I?
What can provide food before it is alive, while it is alive and after it's dead?
I fly to any foreign parts assisted by my spreading wings. My body holds an hundred hearts Nay I will tell you stranger things when I am not in haste I ride and then I mend my pace anon.