Sin
, according to Milton, is twin-keeper with Death of the gates of Hell. She sprang full-grown from the head of Satan.
“… Woman to the waist, and fair,
But ending foul in many a scaly fold
Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed
With mortal sting.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.