法苑珠林 70.75

70.75

晉大興元年三月。武昌太守王諒。有牛生子。兩頭八足兩尾共一腹。不能自生。十餘人以繩引之。子死母活。其三年後苑中有牛生。一足三尾。生而死也。

In the third month of the first year of the Daxing era of the Jin dynasty, an ox belonging to Wang Liang, the Grand Administrator of Wuchang, gave birth to an offspring with two heads, eight legs, and two tails sharing a single belly. It could not be born on its own, so more than ten men pulled it with ropes. The calf died, but the mother survived. Three years later, in the rear garden, an ox was born with one leg and three tails; it died at birth.