By Folo-Glagba KorkollieThe Daily Observer newspaper’s Grand Bassa County office in Buchanan has received information about two women giving birth to ‘strange creatures’ at separately locations recently in Glakon Statutory District #2 ‘A’. The traditional birth attendants killed the creature, and were also happy in the end because the expectant mother survived the ordeal. But a long standing medical practitioner, speaking to the Daily Observer, said such birth as the horned baby can be attributed to abnormal fetal development. This branch of medicine is called Teratology which is the study of the causes, mechanisms, and manifestations of abnormal fetal development. In many traditional societies including those in Liberia, such birth defects are usually attributed to witchcraft and it would not be surprising if the surviving mothers face ostracization

Source: Daily Observer February 16, 2018 02:26 UTC