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“Pliny named them Blemmyae, but Anthropophagi is the accepted designation.”
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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It is said that the Blemmyae have no heads and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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“Pliny named them Blemmyae, but Anthropophagi is the accepted designation.”
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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It is said that the Blemmyae have no heads and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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I also notice that there is no page on the Blemmyae on Vicipaedia.
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I also notice that there is no page on the Blemmyae on Vicipaedia.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The Blemmyae were men from the land of Prester John, the men whose heads grew beneath their shoulders.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Literate scholars of the Islamic courts had of course heard tell of the exotic Blemmyae people.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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November 28, 2017