Octopus Eggs Impregnate Swimmer
January 4th, 2009
photo taken from greenexpander.com
In this urban legend, a girl swallows frog spawn. An octopus grows inside her with tentacles that reaches to every part of her body. Here is a brief summary, as published in a New Zealand newspaper in 1990: “Years ago a young woman complained about gripping pains in her stomach. When operated upon, a young octopus was discovered. The explanation? She swallowed an octopus egg while swimming.” Some believe that this urban legend resonates with fears of unwanted pregnancy.
(Source: Brunvand, Jan H. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001.)
Wow people will believe anything.Octopuses are completely amazing creatures but man, oh man not that talented!! So a woman swallows FROG eggs and an octopus grows inside her??? That makes absolutely no sense, if your gonna make up sh** you should probably remain in the same phylum as octopuses (Mollusca) or at least use an animal that is on the same evolutionary page (i.e. a coelomate invertebrate as opposed to a coelomate chordate, and vertebrate.) Next time you should try an sea slug or annelid worm or even better a parasite. It still wouldn’t make any sense but at least it wouldn’t be sooooo dumb. Quit giving these intelligent curious individual creatures a bad nam!! EPIC FAIL
Ha … the mystery of Centaurs and Minotaurs has finally been solved … women swallowing sperm from aquine and bovine species respectively … albeit not respectively …
GULP … equine not aquine … (my typo)