Sometimes our past becomes our present. Source: What Is a Vestigial Tail?

From What Is a Vestigial Tail?:

All humans are created with a small tail that is later absorbed by the body and developed into the tailbone. In some cases, small amounts of tissue are left hanging on the tailbone area of the body.

Vestigial tails are also known as 'caudal tails'.

But they once had other names.

From East Anglia and the Hopkins Trials, 1645-1647: a County Guide:

Stearne claimed to have conducted a body search of Adam Sabie at the behest of some of the villagers and to have found near his fundament ‘one Teate of the greatest length that ever he sawe upon the body of any man’.

17th century witch-finders inspected defendants for extra nipples and for 'teats' near the anus. They were looking for what they called 'the Devil's Mark' or 'the Witch's Mark'.

From Witches Mark - History of Massachusetts:

John Clarke of Huntingdonshire, tried in 1646, who told a fellow accused witch that he was foolish to have let the authorities find his marks and that he had “cut off mine three days before I was searched.”

John's last name 'Clarke' implies he was a clerk. That is: a cleric - a record-keeper for a vicar or wicca. All three occupations seem to have been purged during England's 17th century Civil War.

But tailed entities were not restricted to England. They show up in cataclysmic contexts such as Indus Valley ruins on the border of India and Pakistan:

Source: Study of The Indus Script, Asko Parpola, p58

From Study of The Indus Script, Asko Parpola, p59:

The ‘fig’ + ‘crab’ ligature is thus equated with a male figure armed with bow and arrows, anthropomorphic apart from having a bull’s horns and tail, and with long eyes.

Sometimes genetic mishaps near the fundament go too far the other way, creating a sacral dimple:

The gap above the crack. Source: Sacral Dimple

From Sacral Dimple:

There are no known causes for a sacral dimple. It is a congenital condition, meaning it's present at birth.

The risks of these spinal problems increase if the sacral dimple is accompanied by a nearby tuft of hair, skin tag or lump

That suggests sacral dimples, teats and tufts of hair are associated in some way. To my mind, their possible cause may be the recent genetic modification of humans. Perhaps vestigial tails, caudal tails, sacral dimples, teats, tufts and Devil's marks indicate recently modified DNA that is not yet entirely dominant.

Besides 17th century vicar/wicca trials and modern medical conditions, is there other evidence humans - or near-human hominids - were only recently docked?

From Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1562 painting The Triumph of Death:

Monkey business atop the lynch. Source: The Triumph of Death

The image was taken from the top right corner of the oldest version of The Triumph of Death. Later versions by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Younger depict the monkey figure more ambiguously or replace it with a human skeleton.

Their later versions also replaced the original infrastructure of butchery with Christian symbolism. So that a lynching added by Jan Brueghel the Younger was later replaced by a cross, and various carcass-drying and hanging structures were re-rendered as crosses. Similarly, while the lynch-monkey disappeared, cowled monks appeared elsewhere in the painting.

It is as if changes to The Triumph of Death track the Romantic Movement's effort to over-write memories of human-harvesting with memories of Christian mythology.

Local folklore also catches the monkey-like practices of witches. Here Leicestershire historian Rob Trubshaw reads an early 19th account of Leicester's child-hunting - and child-skinning - witch Black Annis:

Not a tall tale but a high tail. Source: Black Annis: Leicester's very own bogey-person

If you haven't read it yet, note the interior of Black Annis's cave sounds like the interior of the Scottish coast caves described in How Do You Get A.I. to Think For Itself? - Part Three.

A witch near Temple Bruer in Lincolnshire - Navenby's Old Meg - was also said to hide in roadside trees and pounce on victims from above.

The old English word for 'witch' - wicca - seems to be a variant of the Roman/Holy Roman word vicar. But changing facial features also suggest rapid evolution in recent times.

The traditional European witch's nose is also sometimes portrayed as a Roman nose:

Witch festival in Germany's Harz Mountains. Source: Witch Kitsch

That nose is instantly identifiable to northern Europeans with or without the green paint. Why do Europeans associate witches with big, hooked noses?

Perhaps earlier humans were designed that way.

If so, you'd expect to find design drawings like this:

My what sharp canines you have. Source: Archive.org

It is held by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art but it first shows up in [a collection from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England]((https://archive.org/details/mma_the_head_of_a_grotesque_man_in_profile_facing_right_338125).

More of these long-nosed, protruding-chinned early humans are presented in Faces of Giants in imagery of butchers and executioners. They seem to date from immediately before the mysterious appearance in early 18th century Europe of:

• highly advanced anatomical and dissection techniques, and
• the sudden discovery and documentation of 'ancient' landscapes and landmarks.

Some of many English examples of these are summarised in Dating the Intelligent Pig.

Note the nose; specifically the abandoned first attempt at a nose in the next drawing. Perhaps this drawing captures a design transition toward the Roman nose - the witch's nose:

Evolution results from design mistakes. Source: Archive.org

If you know what to look for, you can see yourself when you were just a design proposal:

Vitruvian Man. Source: Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

What does 'Vitruvian' mean?

There's an official answer: The Significance of Leonardo da Vinci’s Famous “Vitruvian Man” Drawing says it means 'after Vitruvius' or 'as per Vitruvius'.

But you only need to read about Vitruvius's first translator Cesare di Lorenzo Cesariano to suspect that Vitruvius is probably a misdirection.

A viable alternative explanation is that 'Vitruvian' means 'In Vitro'.

As in 'Test Tube Man'.

From Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia:

the work is a unique synthesis of artistic and scientific ideals

So not just 'eye of newt and tongue of frog' but an advanced understanding of how to rearrange DNA:

Words spelled with letters A, G, T and C. Source: Westworld

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