The constellation
F525 Person with half a body. As if body has been split in two
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Monstrous persons · F510 entry
beneath it
- One-sided man · F525.1 entry
- Man splits into two parts · F525.2 entry
- Tribe of one-eyed, one-footed, one-handed men · F525.3 entry
- Person (Antichrist) with flat body · F525.4 entry
- Giant with limbs and organs only on his left side · F525.5 entry
- Person without back · F525.6 entry
keeps company
- Persons with punctured bodies. May be carried on a pole put through the orifice; may be hung up on a peg · F529.1 entry
- Giant with nails like claws · F531.1.6.1 entry
- Giant with teeth like those of saw · F531.1.6.2 entry
- Giants fifty feet tall with footprints six feet long · F531.2.1.2 entry
- Giants live to be eighteen thousand years old · F531.6.4.2 entry
- Pygmy. Remarkably small man. Also called "dwarf". To be distinguished from the dwarfs who live in the woods and inhabit underground places (F451) · F535 entry
- Pygmies nine inches tall · F535.2.1 entry
- Pygmies dressed in red · F535.3.2 entry
- Sexes of pygmies distinguished. A slight beard on men; long tresses on women · F535.4.1 entry
- Long ears. People must hold them up so as not to impede walking · F542.1 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter IX