“And then she appeared to him in size a hideous and monstrous witch, a thousand times more repulsive of aspect than the most frightful things seen upon earth.”
“Tell and his compatriots seek to restore the liberty of the people, and end the enslavement by a monstrous tyrant, all the while not shedding unnecessary blood and offering to temper vengeance with mercy.”
“Speaking with a human voice and looking like an animal covered with hair, this monstrous being was the embodiment and personification of all of my misspent energies.”
“It was not unusual for Medieval cultural artifacts to represent monstrous deformity as genuine physical disability with social ostracism indicative of its outcome.”
