12-Pig-faced Women: Citation Needed

12-Pig-faced Women: Citation Needed

For over 200 years in western Europe, there was a pervasive belief among large portions of the population that the upper classes in society were hiding something - women horribly cursed with the heads of pigs . Not an insult or a metaphor, no, these were women who were thought literally to be pigs from the neck up. Crowds gathered to harass potential pig-faced women and chase their carriages, and they apparently made appearances at fairs. This is an incredibly bizarre series of events that is all but forgotten in the modern day, but bears were shaved, legacies were tarnished, and there were men from an ocean away proposing marriage to a pig-faced woman.
On the creature of the week, it's a bird who can escape from any predator, but after you hear the route it needs to take, you'll wonder if it shouldn't just let itself get caught.

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387: Slavic Folklore: Kind of Forgot About Vengeance (part 2 of 2)

387: Slavic Folklore: Kind of Forgot About Vengeance (part 2 of 2)

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386: Slavic Folklore: Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-looking (part 1 of 2)

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25 Sep 202441min

385: Aesop's Fables: On the Farm

385: Aesop's Fables: On the Farm

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384: Turkish folklore: The Silent Princess

384: Turkish folklore: The Silent Princess

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383: Monkey King: Food Fight (part 2 of 2)

383: Monkey King: Food Fight (part 2 of 2)

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382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)

382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)

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28 Aug 202443min

381: Japanese folklore: Lend Me Your Ears

381: Japanese folklore: Lend Me Your Ears

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380: British Legends: I Loathe that for You

380: British Legends: I Loathe that for You

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