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File:Blemmyes.jpg

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One of the Blemmyes, a headless fantastic creature with eyes and mouth in its chest, as described by Pliny the Elder. Image is a 1544 woodcut from Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster.

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Original found here archive copy at the Wayback Machine at what is apparently a page run by the Gov't of Denmark's state medical library.

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current17:05, 20 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 17:05, 20 February 2006192 × 497 (26 KB)Smerdis of TlönOne of the Blemmyes, a headless fantastic creature with eyes and mouth in its chest, as described by Pliny the Elder. Image is a 1544 woodcut from ''Cosmographia'' by Sebastian Munster. Original found [http://www.udstillinger.dnlb.dk/Fabe
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