Boanthropy

Boanthropy

Boanthropy is an illness in which sufferers take to the belief that they are cattle.

Some Christianswho consider the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar to have suffered from. "He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle." ( [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=34&chapter=4&version=31#en-NIV-21871 Daniel 4:33b] NIV)

The word also appears as a word to be spelled in the Broadway play The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.Fact|date=March 2008


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