One of these objects is told “be quiet… lest Typhon seize you” on an amulet made of hematite, one of many amulets designed to control them. After a failed defense that hinged on Mary Glover owning a defective one of these objects, Edward Jorden wrote a treatise on their “Suffocation.” After he is betrayed by his daughters, King Lear feels one of these objects “[swell] up towards [his] heart.” Soranus of Ephesus contradicted Aretaeus of Cappadocia’s view that these objects, which he called the “animal within the animal,” moved and released venomous vapors. Joseph Campbell analogizes the tomb to one of these objects in a discussion of coming “full circle.” Hippocrates claimed that these objects engaged in “wandering” that caused ailments including hysteria, which takes its name from the Greek for this organ. For 10 points, Galen worried that what organ was suffocated by menstrual blood? ■END■
ANSWER: wombs [or uterus or uteri; accept wandering womb; accept hyster until “hysteria” is read; prompt on mother or The Suffocation of the Mother; prompt on matrix]
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