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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Robert Pickton (redirect from Pig Farmer Killer)
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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