54 - Pigheaded Women

Urban legends from the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England, speak of women with the heads of pigs.  Similar tales are still extant in the urban legends of the United States.

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SOURCES

London Examiner, February 26, 1815.

“Lady Hyde Parker's masqued fete, &c.” London Morning Post, May 31, 1815.

“Summary account of the prophetic origin and history of Joanna Southcott,” The Exeter Flying Post, September 8, 1814.

Bondeson, Jan. The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

— and Arie Molenkamp. “The Countess Margaret of Henneberg and her 365 children.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 89 (December 1996).

Chambers, Robert. “'Modern myths' – the pig-faced lady,” Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, August 17, 1850.

de Rochechouart, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1899.

"A Certaine Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman...” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A12308.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

"A Monstrous Shape, or a Shapelesse Monster.” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10066.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

“The Long-Nos'd Lass.”
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Long-Nos%27d_Lass

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/tabula-egmundana-SIM_02396?lang=en