Mutton dressed as man: Superstitious villagers living in fear after sheep gives birth to 'half-human half-beast' creature that was 'sent by the devil'
Superstitious villagers have been living in fear since a sheep gave birth to this creature that was said by elders to be half-human half-beast and 'sent by the devil'.
Many of the 4,000 residents and farmers of Lady Frere in Eastern Province, South Africa, were convinced that bestiality and witchcraft had led to the birth of the creature.
The panic got so great that the Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development sent out experts to carry out tests after pictures of it spread like wildfire through the community. Daily Mail >>>>>>>
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville Book xi The human being and portents
4. Some portents seem to have been created as indications of future events, for God sometimes wants to
indicate what is to come through some defects in newborns,
and also through dreams and oracles, by which he
may foreshadow and indicate future calamity for certain
peoples or individuals, as is indeed proved by abundant
experience. 5. In fact, to Xerxes a fox born of a mare was
a portent for the destruction of the empire. A monster
to which a woman gave birth, whose upper body parts
were human, but dead, while its lower body parts came
from diverse animals, yet were alive, signified to Alexander
the sudden murder of the king – for the worse parts
had outlived the better ones. However, those monsters
that are produced as omens do not live long – they die
as soon as they are born. Source
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