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Bestiality

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Bestiality
See also Perversion.
Asterius
Minotaur born to Pasiphaë and Cretan Bull. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 34]
Leda
raped by Zeus in form of swan. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 149]
Lucius
transformed into ass, makes love with harlot. [Rom. Lit.: The Golden Ass]
Pasiphaë
positioned inside hollow cow, consummates lust for bull. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 234; Gk. Lit.: Imagines 1:16]
Zeus
in form of a swan, seduces and impregnates Leda. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 149]
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Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Great armies of them are toiling now at the building of Ardis, housed in wretched barracks where family life cannot exist, and where decency is displaced by dull bestiality.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
I still had much to learn as to the depths of cruelty and bestiality to which omnipotence may drag its possessor.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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