[Avodah] vashti

[Arie Folger]

One problem occurs to me regarding the literal interpretation of Vashti 
physically having a primitive appendage grow from her coccyx (tailbone). 
Since eventually she was executed, the executioners and those dealing with 
the body would have seen the odd sight of Vashti with a monkey's (or cow's, 
or horse's, or whatever's) tail. Imagine the headlines of Shushan Times. "Was 
Queen a Demon, Tail and All?" Somehow, I feel that tsaraat would have made 
for less interesting headlines, but a tail?

Forcibly, we must say that the tail disappeared, creating a second miracle not 
mentioned by 'Hazal at all.
-- 
Arie Folger
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