Monster bodies are marked and punished as signs of divine rejection

Evidence

Tamburlaine has a lame leg. Dracula cannot bear the sunlight. Mummies cannot move freely. Zombies never rest. Medieval monsters are also punished, often marked on the skin, such as the hairy, black giant Saracens that are often found in the medieval romance, attacking, harassing, killing, and eating Christian knights. Cynocephalie can only howl, not talk. Black Saracens are also punished, their black skin a sign of God’s rejection. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 840

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s guiding question about what the monster lets Western makers avoid seeing about themselves - here the monster’s body is visibly condemned by God.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the logic of monster embodiment: physical marks (lameness, black skin, hairiness) function as visible punishments encoding divine rejection.