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or human child malformed to such a degree as to be considered "monstrous". Such births were often taken as omens, signs of God, or moral warnings to be...

was that the young Massachusetts governor, Henry Vane, fathered the "monstrous births" of both Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson; that he "debauched both, and...

agency, America is getting horror movies about people forced into monstrous births by religious institutions worried about their growing irrelevance"...

agency, America is getting horror movies about people forced into monstrous births by religious institutions worried about their growing irrelevance"...

Miraculous births are a common theme in mythological, religious and legendary narratives and traditions. They often include conceptions by miraculous circumstances...

Monster of Ravenna was a possibly apocryphal late Renaissance-era monstrous birth whose appearance in early 1512 near the city of Ravenna was widely...

accounts of prodigies and wonders include ghost stories, accounts of monstrous births, strange animals like centaurs, hermaphrodites, giant skeletons and...

abominable cheat and imposter in pretending to be delivered of several monstrous births". Margaret Toft had remained staunch, and refused to comment further...

A mooncalf (or moon-calf) is a monstrous birth, the abortive fetus of a cow or other farm animal. The term was occasionally applied to an abortive human...

birth, it is the result of an underlying condition severe enough that the baby does not survive very long. The mortality of severely deformed births may...

ch/2014/10/life-sketch-of-katherine-marbury-scott.html Eve LaPlante, "Monstrous Births, Powerful Midwives: The Battle over Women’s Bodies in 17th-century...

elongated tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas...

reported abortions and monstrous births. Meta-analyses of the most current studies on the association between Agent Orange and birth defects have concluded...

Grotesque imagery in art in the Renaissance period with depictions of “monstrous births, hybrid creatures and legendary beasts,” created a basis for the emerging...

Catsoulis named it a "Critic's Pick" writing, "Motherhood is both mad and monstrous in Birth/Rebirth, Laura Moss's ultrasmart, ferociously feminist take on the...

magistrates of each year, public events, and omens such as eclipses and monstrous births. The Annales Maximi covers the period from the early Roman Republic...

frequently found with the spelling slightly modernised, e.g. "monstrous regiment" or "monstrous regimen". It is clear however that the use of "regimen[t]"...

form. Nature was widely believed to be unstable and capricious, with monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life. The...

seventeenth-century broadsides, most of which contained themes of "crimes, monstrous births, or warnings of God’s judgement." Later, eighteenth-century copies...

variety of different appearances of the monstrous feminine which all reflect female sexuality: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, possessed monster, witch...