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Eugenia Martinez Vallejo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, also known as “La Monstrua,” was born in 1674 in the village of La Puebla de los Infantes in the province of Seville, Spain. Her parents were Cristóbal Martínez and Isabel Vallejo, and she had two older brothers.