The New Yorker, September 16, 1939 P. 23
The scene is Madame Visaggi's restaurant, where old customers got together of an evening. Among "the regulars" was Peggy, a girl with a birthmark, who came in to drink brandy and to read her newspaper. The bartender, Eddie had been in love with her for years, but she always said, the back of my hand to Eddie." One evening one of the customer brought his wife and five-year-old daughter to dine. The little girl came over to Peggy's table, she asked Peggy what the birthmark was. Peggy told her that God had put it there because she had shot off her father's head and cut out her mother's heart and eaten it....
