[240] Also such omens as the speaking infant (113. 118), while still in the womb (175), the talking ox (65. 113. 118. 125. 129. 140. 146. 153. 159. 166. etc.), by the side of the two-headed swine (129), three-footed mule or horse (150. 157. 166), a five-footed horse or mule (131. 136. 171. 176), two-headed calf (180. 181. 308), lamb with swine's head (135. 136), swine with human head (124. 136. 138), with human hands and feet (165), two-headed lamb (138. 139. 197. 198), boy with elephant's head (125), infant without eyes or nose (141), without arms or feet (142), two-headed boy (155. 177. 315. 317), with four hands and four legs (163. 165. 172. 317), with three legs (168 and 169), with three legs and three hands (199), with four legs (175), androgynous infants (125. 135. 170. 175. 181. 187. 196. 198), twins united at the back etc., (198. 284), a child with beard and four eyes (272), a woman giving birth to an elephant (201), to a serpent (209-210), a woman giving birth to seven children in days of Algemundus, first king of Lombards (284), a boy without eyes, no arms and a fish tail instead of feet (316) etc. [241] Conrad Gessner, _Allgemeines Thierbuch_ (Deutsch von Conrad Foerer, Frankfurt 1669) 19. [242] p. 582. The chronicle is brought down in fact to the year 1557. [243] p. 32-68. [244] _Christliche Mystik_ III 440 seq. [245] Le Diable (Paris 1864). [246] In the doctrine of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, this factor is involved. [247] See above 44. [248] P. 98. Chapter XII, of Martin's work, ('Les Monstres Celebres'), furnishes many supplements to Lycosthenes work, including some interesting examples of Hermaphrodites. [249] Martin p. 100. [250] The mummy was found in the cemetery reserved for the sacred animals, from which Martin concludes that the Egyptians shared the general belief in monsters as due to the combination of the human with the animal. It would be interesting in view of the present stage of Egyptological research to determine the exact character of the mummy which was thus destined to play so important a part in the history of modern medicine. See Martin, ib Introduction p. V. [251] See Guinard, _Précis de Teratologie_ (Paris 1854) in which a full account of the theory of St. Hilaire and of those who followed in his footsteps is given. [252] P. T. Barnum, the famous American showman, in his Memoirs tells in a most frank manner of the manufacture of his monsters--living and dead. [253] Hist. Nat. VII 3. [254] Amsterdamer Weekblad voor Nederland, May 28, 1911. The illustration attached to the description reveals the bogus character of the 'monster'. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten begründet von Albrecht Dieterich und Richard Wünsch =herausgegeben= von Richard Wünsch und Ludwig Deubner in Münster i. W. in Königsberg i. Pr. Vierzehnter Band 1913/1914 Verlag von Alfred Töpelmann (vorm. J. Ricker) in Gießen