Weird News: Sheep Allegedly Births Human Faced Calf
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
You know Pan is at work when a sheep delivers a strikingly human-faced calf, a blasphemy that belongs more in the pages of Arthur Machen than in the newspaper. Mercifully, perhaps, the creature was dead on arrival into this world. Mercifully again, the source of this story is the Russian tabloid Pravda, so there is possibly a little doubt about its veracity. Unmercifully, the photo of this abomination shows a coy smile plastered to its lifeless mask...
2 comments:
Cf. The Were-Sheep of Abercrave in this book.
A strange connection, Des. I haven't yet gotten around to reading Crisp's latest, but it's on my list. Always interesting to see "reality" and art collide.
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