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This article focuses on the theme of monstrous births, used in literature. Monstrous births include babies with deformed body parts such as two heads or are abnormally large. These births are often the origins of various folk tales, from Asia to Europe to the Americas. Monstrous births were said to be caused by the indiscretions of the mother, which is then passed onto her offspring. In Christianity, the motif of a woman giving birth to a demon is well known throughout, particularly in Europe. Deformed babies were thought to have been demons born from a human-demon conception.