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    Legends featuring pig-faced women originated roughly simultaneously in The Netherlands, England and France in the late 1630s. The stories tell of a wealthy...
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    Varahi (category Pig-faced women)
    ("vajra-face"). Varahi also enters the Heruka-mandala as an attendant goddess. Varahi, along with Varttali (another form of Varahi), appears as the hog-faced...
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  • Penelope (2006 film) (category Pig-faced women)
    Wilhern bloodline; the next Wilhern daughter will be born with the face of a pig, only to become human when "one of her own kind" learns to love her...
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    Vajravārāhī (category Pig-faced women)
    only eighty pigs and as many sows grunting in the congregation hall under the lead of a big sow, and he dared not sack a place belonging to pigs. When the...
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    title character in Penelope (2006), a rom-com based on the legends of pig-faced women. The role required Ricci to wear a prosthetic nose: "We had a couple...
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    spirit – invented by adults to keep children safely away from water Pig-faced women Plaaggeesten – a kind of teasing ghosts without human souls; demonic...
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    Loathly lady (category Cultural depictions of women)
    Hercules at the crossroads King Henry (song) Perchta Pig-faced women Sheela na gig Shrek The Frog Prince Women in the Middle Ages Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury...
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  • his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s. Between 1995 and 2001, Pickton is believed to have murdered at least 26 women, many of them...
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    Pig milk is typically consumed by piglets. It is similar in composition to cow's milk, though higher in fat and more watery. Pig milk is seldom obtained...
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    Grizell Steevens (category Irish women philanthropists)
    archives of the hospital are in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Pig-faced women Bondeson 2006, p. 81. Townsend 1860, p. 17. UK Retail Price Index inflation...
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