The "witch's teat" may have been merely a mole or a wart, a freckle or a blemish, or even a supernumerary nipple, which occurs in approximately one out of two hundred women; but for susceptible minds, it was an aberrant breast in the service of the devil.
from Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast
Sunday, June 19, 2011
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