article_snippet.sent: Take pre-colonial Brazilians, who thought twins were a product of adultery, resulting in the poor innocent mother often being executed for the poor innocent mother supposed infidelity.
article_snippet.sent: Some primitive African societies abhorred twins because of the way multiple births resemble an animal’s litter.
article_snippet.sent: In Greek mythology, however, twins were believed to be the product of human intercourse with the gods, meaning twins were sacred, while ancient Slavs maintained that twins shared one special soul.
highlights_snippet.sent: Pre-colonial Brazilians thought twins were a product of adultery .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Greek mythology believed twins were the product of intercourse with gods .
  