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The practice of animal-human marriage has made appearances in folklore and several mythological stories where it is often understood to mean a deity-human marriage involving gods or heroes. [2] Many tribes of the Native Americans in the United States trace the origin of humanity to marriages between other animals and humans. [3]
Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses.
In a story from the oral folk literature of the Western Toba region of India, a man has intercourse with a female donkey. [165] One of the four different figures in Arab folktales believed to have been created by the sexual intercourse of humans and animals is the “Son of the Donkey”, who is believed to have been born from the mating of a ...
Although thousands of female witches were accused of having sex with animals, usually said to be the Devil in animal form or their familiars, court records available in Europe and the United States, dating back to the 14th century and continuing into the 20th century, nearly always show males, rather than females, as the human parties in court ...
Lord Morton bred a white mare with a wild quagga stallion, [a] and when he later bred the same mare with a white stallion, the offspring strangely had stripes in the legs, like the quagga. [9] The Surgeon-General of New York, the physiologist Austin Flint, in his Text-Book of Human Physiology (fourth edition, 1888) described the phenomenon as ...
Anggitay – A strictly-female creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Centaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Khepri – The dung beetle-headed Egyptian God. Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology. Kurma – Upper-half human, lower-half ...
Zoophilia is a paraphilia in which a person experiences a sexual fixation on non-human animals. [1] [2] [3] Bestiality instead refers to cross-species sexual activity between humans and non-human animals. [a] Due to the lack of research on the subject, it is difficult to conclude how prevalent bestiality is. [5]
The animal is revealed to be a human prince in disguise or under a curse. [2] Most of these tales are grouped in the international system of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index under type ATU 425, "The Search for the Lost Husband". Some subtypes exist in the international classification as independent stories, but they sometimes do not adhere to a fixed ...