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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 890 Some also do write, that Bees may be bred out of their own ashes sprinkled with honey,..which sort may be called in Greek ἀυτοπάτορες, or Self-begetters.

1788 W. Huntington Free Thoughts in Captivity 50 Neither the self-begetter nor the freethinker will ever be able to palm one child of the flesh upon the everlasting Father.

1873 A. E. Kroeger tr. W. von der Vogelweide in Minnesinger of Germany ii. 64 Thy power its self-begetter, Can grow nor less nor greater.

1962 Mod. Fiction Stud. 8 144 The self-begetter who by definition denies the necessity for his father's intercourse with his mother for his own existence is an Oedipal ideal.

2002 Amer. Folklore Soc. 115 389 Perhaps the most amazing feat of all is Bata's impregnating his former wife so as to be reborn from her... By being a self-begetter, a son becomes one with his father.