They were interpreted as divinations, and were cited as forebodings and examples of wrath, or even as glorifications of the Almighty.

The semi-human creatures were invented or imagined, and cited as the results of bestiality and allied forms of sexual perversion prevalent in those times.

We find minute descriptions and portraits of these impossible results of wicked practices in many of the older medical books.

According to Pare there was born in 1493, as the result of illicit intercourse between a woman and a dog, a creature resembling in its upper extremities its mother, while its lower extremities were the exact counterpart of its canine father.

This particular case was believed by Bateman and others to be a precursor to the murders and wickedness that followed in the time of Pope Alexander I.Volateranus, Cardani, and many others cite instances of this kind.