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Our starting point here will be a puzzling observation recoded by a Spanish missionary in Peru, Father P. J. de Arriaga, at the end of sixteenth century, and published inn his Extirpacion de la idolatria del Peru (Lima 1621) He noted that in a certain part of Peru of his time, in times of bitter cold the priest called in all the inhabitants who were known to have been feet first or who had a harelip or who were twins