Strangely, this goat looks kind of familiar to me. It looks a lot like this misshapen calf from Reformation polemical broadsheets:
It was dubbed "the monk calf" and was used as an argument that God disliked what the Catholic church was doing: e.g. the luxurious architectural projects and indulgences (essentially a get-out-of-hell-free-but-it-costs-money card). Others on the catholic side said it was meant to symbolize the monstrosity of Luther himself.
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