British about three hundred years, believed in the existence of women svinorylyh

Stories about women svinorylyh - Western European folk genre that arose in England in the late 1630s: the legend of a rich lady, endowed with normal human body and snout (or head) pig.

Although the story of svinorylyh women differ in the details, plot them altogether typical. Pregnant woman of noble birth, met in the street beggar children, runs it, and at the same time in any way compares beggar children with pigs. What is subject to curses, and when it comes to the birth of a child, a girl is born, healthy and well-developed in all respects, except that instead of her face - pig's snout.

The child grows healthy, but his behavior is somewhat like the habits of pigs. Girl eating from a silver trough, and when he says it reminds her grunting. The only child of his parents, it must inherit a large fortune, but her parents are concerned about what will happen to it after death. They are trying to find a man who agrees to marry her, or donate their money orphanage, who undertook to take care of it for life.

In 1861, Charles Dickens drew attention to the life of faith in svinorylyh women in England, noting that "in every generation, perhaps, was a lady with a pig's snout».

Over time, the belief in svinorylyh women weakened. The last major published work, announce their existence authentic, it was published by British scientists in 1924

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