Brewer's: Sin

according to Milton, is twinkeeper 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.

Paradise Lost. ii. 650-653. Original sin. (See Adam.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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