Engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Prodiges (1573) - Text: “” This...

Engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Prodiges (1573) - Text: “” This present monster depicted here was found in an egg with the face and face of a man, all the hair of small snakes all alive, and the beard is fashionable and in the way of three snakes coming out of the chin: and was found on the fifteenth day of March last passed 1569 with a lawyer named Baucheron, in Authun in Burgundy, by a chambriere who broke eggs to put them in butter, between which he was: who was broken by her, saw the said monster come out, having human face, hair and beard of snakes, of which she was wonderfully frightened.”