They took their food by two mouths but expelled it at a single orifice.

At one time, one of the women laughed, feasted, and talked, while the other wept, fasted, and kept a religious silence.

The account relates how one of them died, and the survivor bore her dead sister about for three years before she was overcome by the oppression and stench of the cadaver.
Batemen describes the birth of a boy in 1529, who had two heads, four ears, four arms, but only two thighs and two legs.

Buchanan speaks at length of the famous "Scottish Brothers," who were the cynosure of the eyes of the Court of James III of Scotland.

This monster consisted of two men, ordinary in appearance in the superior extremities, whose trunks fused into a single lower extremity.