Came across the strange story of the birth of Bacchus (Dionysus) in Spenser's "The Fairie Queene": his mother, Semele, died after being tricked into getting the father, Zeus, to show her his true, lightning-deadly form, so Zeus took the unborn Bacchus and carried him to term inside his thigh.
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