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The Comet was taken as a special omen of the ter- rible fate of the City of Herat and its surrounding coun- try, where the bloodthirsty conqueror caused to be slaughtered over a million of people. Jenghis Khan, who believed in stars and omens, having been born with bloodstained hands, hailed the Comet as his special Star. Under its rays he extended his immense Empire to its outermost boundaries from the China seas to the banks of the Dniepr in Russia. After the Comet's disappearance, Jenghis Kh...an regarded the planets that had crossed its orbit as stars of ill omen, betokening his death, so he set his face backward from his march of conquest, and soon afterwards died in Mongolia. 1145 THE Comet appeared over Europe early in Spring. It was seen at Rome in March and April. Inspired by the appearance of the Comet, Pope Eu- genius III. Called for a crusade against the Moslems. (76) St. Bernard in France took up the cry, and preached a holy war all over France. On Easter Sunday, King Louis VII.
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