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Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast.

Konrad Lykosthenes, Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus(Chronicle of prodigies and portents, which are beyond the order, movement, and operation of nature, both in the higher and these lower regions of the world, 1557). Konrad Lykosthenes, Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus(Chronicle of prodigies and portents, which are beyond the order, movement, and operation of nature, both in the higher and these lower regions of the world, 1557). Johan Zahn, Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum(A physico-mathematical-historical mirror of notable and marvelous things worth knowing, 1696) – Source

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