• Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlM
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    1 year ago

    The one this comes from, Macbeth, makes even less sense. The prophecy is “not of woman borne”, which for some reason caesarian sections don’t count??

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      It does when put in the context of the time. “C-sections” were often done when the mother was already dead and they were attempting to save the child (no more mother to be born to). “Born” in the way it was understood in the Middle Ages also meant vaginal birth.