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Homunculus

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Homunculus
formless spirit of learning. [Ger. Lit.: Faust]
See : Ghost
Homunculus 

according to medieval alchemists, a manlike creature that might be created artificially. In the 17th century it was thought that the homunculus was contained in the human spermatozoon and would develop into a human being if implanted in a maternal organism.
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He appears to me less human than simian, and whenever I hear him talk I seem to myself to have paused in the street to listen to the shrill clatter of a hand-organ, to which the gambols of a hairy homunculus form an accompaniment.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art
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