Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The idea of a human animal hybrid is nothing new.

Anyone who has any familiarity with mythology the world over will have heard of minotars,

centars, fawns, saters and all kinds of fun combinations that stimulate the imagination.

But most people, by now at least, know to catarize these creatures in the fiction category

of their mental library, not in the non-fiction section.

But there are apparently some exceptions to that rule.

There's at least one particular human animal hybrid that is so well documented that no

one knows heads or tails what the make of it, other than to accept it.

It started in the Netherlands in 1621.

According to the legend, a Dutch aress by the surname of Jacobs encountered a mother and

her perfectly normal children begging on the streets.

Having nothing but bitterness in her own cold heart, the aress told the woman to be gone

and take her pig children with her.

The beggar woman, unhearing this, said that if her children were pigs, then may the aress

as children be pigs as well.

In the story books we would call this the Insighting Incident, the start of the action.

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