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Ancient and medieval tales of bizarre creatures in remote lands fascinated people, featuring beings like dog-headed humanoids and individuals with a single giant foot. Among these were the Blemmyes, originally a real Nubian tribe, who over time became mythical headless figures with eyes and mouths on their torsos.

This vivid image first appeared 2,500 years ago in Herodotus’s 5th-century BCE *Histories*, where he described

“headless creatures with eyes on their chests” in western Libya, a wild region filled with massive serpents and horned donkeys. In the 1st century, Strabo’s *Geography* portrayed the Blemmyes as a people living along the Nile and Red Sea, not as monsters. Pliny the Elder, however, reinforced the headless myth in *Natural History*, stating their eyes and mouths were on their chests.

The Blemmyes’ legend persisted into the Middle Ages. In the 14th-century *The Travels of Sir John Mandeville*

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a “cursed headless race with eyes on their shoulders,” now placed on an Asian island. In the 16th and 17th centuries, explorer Sir Walter Raleigh described a similar group, the Ewaipanoma, with eyes on their shoulders and mouths mid-chest.

Today, belief in such creatures has waned, but ancient accounts spark curiosity. Some science fiction fans speculate they were extraterrestrial, while others propose alternative explanations.🤔😳🙏