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[aerobe]

Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis (77 ce) writes:

"A menstruating woman, if she approached a vessel of wine, would turn it sour; she would cause corn to wither, buds to shrivel, fruit to fall from trees, mirrors to dim, bees to die in the hive, and iron and steel to rust."

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[surly]

Beware the devastating omnipotence of the ovaries!