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Animals - Abnormalities - Early works to 1800

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    This horyble monster is cast of a sowe in Eestlande in Pruse two myle from Runyngbergh in a vyllage which is called lebe[n]hayn : whiche monster hathe had a great wyde mouth, with two eyen, foure eares, no stomacke nor guttes [and] two hertes, viii. fete, and the body was growe[n] togyther from the nauyll vp to the hede, [and] with thys foresayde monster were broughte forth. v. yonge pygges alyue, and these two fygures be cou[n]terfeyted after the facyon of the sayd monster both before and behynde. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.[et].XXXI.

    | Date: [1531]
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    This horyble monster is cast of a sowe in Eestlande in Pruse two myle from Runyngbergh in a vyllage which is called lebe[n]hayn : whiche monster hathe had a great wyde mouth, with two eyen, foure eares, no stomacke nor guttes & two hertes, viii. fete, and the body was growe[n] togyther from the nauyll vp to the hede, & with thys foresayde monster were broughte forth. v. yonge pygges alyue, and these two fygures be cou[n]terfeyted after the facyon of the sayd monster both before and behynde. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.&.XXXI.

    | Date: [1531]
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    A meruaylous straunge deformed swyne.

    I. P. | Date: [1570?]

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