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This form of cross is sometimes called St. George's cross (as is  in an above entry). St. George was a Christian officer in the Roman army who came to Lydia, where he discovered that the people were being terrorized by a dragon. This dragon subsisted on human flesh of young girls, and had at that time just demanded the king's daughter as his next meal. George killed the dragon, but was then beheaded by the king because he had persuaded the queen to convert to the Christian faith.
The crusaders were so impressed by this exhibition of passivity and humility on the part of an expert warrior that they chose George as their saint and protector. The medals of various orders often carry St. George's crosses. In alchemy  has sometimes been used to signify arsenic, also drawn  and otherwise. See in Group 54 for more signs for arsenic.
Compare with  in Group 30.
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