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Disfiguring tumors grow on the devil’s otherwise-adorable faces, and then, during fighting and face biting, transmissible cancer cells can flake off and fall into the wounds of the other devil.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2021

Disfiguring as this head-dress might have been to many people, in her case it served merely to enhance the marble whiteness and transparent purity of her complexion.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.