[Avodah] vashti

[Jonathan Baker]

I mentioned this thread, and the comment of the Meharsha, to my wife. 
Her reaction: "Why not?  Humans are sometimes born with tails.  Today,
they're removed at birth, but they may not have done so in antiquity."

See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail

and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=3284435&dopt=Citation

that last for a true tail with vertebrae, which are comparatively rarer.

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