Edward Mordake (Edward Mordake) – an Englishman who allegedly lived in 19th century. Remembered due to the highly unusual ugliness – on the back of the head of Mordrake was a second person.
Relative information about Edward Mordrake preserved relatively Little; neither the date of his birth, nor his date is known for certain of death. It is believed that Mordrake was from a family of very influential – one of the noblest surnames of England of that time. The heir to a kind of Mordrake was very worthy – he was in in every way a talented and enlightened young man, not bad He played music and studied with dignity.
Wax sculpture of Mordrake
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Unfortunately, congenital ugliness pretty complicated Edward a life; despite the fact that in front he looked pretty well, a glance from the side or from the back immediately frightened people away from him – for on Mordrake’s nape ‘flaunted’ a second face.
According to some versions of the story of Mordrake, this person belonged a beautiful girl; it is, however, most likely only poeticized myth. It’s difficult to establish exactly what Mordrake suffered from, however, his second person is most likely an example parasitic twin; such twins always belong to same gender as their ‘originals’.
The parasitic twin is an extremely rare phenomenon, but not something completely unknown. Gemini does not actually conceive as hard as it might seem; alas, often before delivery as only one embryo survives such – he manages to absorb his a weaker brother still in the womb. By the way, it’s exactly like the twin became the basis of the plot of one of Stephen King’s novels.
Sometimes, however, absorption does not occur completely – and it is then there are people like Ed Mordrake to the world.
It is easy to imagine how difficult the second person was. Mordrake. The same myths attributed the twin to Edward a certain – and extremely insidious – intelligence; allegedly second person Mordrake could smile, see off passers-by, and even made a kind of slurred speech. Mordrake begged the doctors to save him from the twin – he allegedly whispered something to him at night satanic; alas, even nowadays doctors are not able guaranteed to successfully carry out such an operation.
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Almost all versions of the story of Mordrake end the same way. – At the age of 23, Edward, who lost all hope, settles his scores with life. Details of suicide vary slightly – in some legends Mordrake takes poison, in others it fires a bullet between his eyes second person. In any case, all legends mention Mordrake’s farewell note; in it he asks to destroy the second face before a funeral – so that at least in the grave it ceases to be nightmare whispers.
Obviously, the story of Mordrake – if such a person and existed ever – reached us in the form of, pretty poeticized; for a while it was generally believed that Edward Mordrake is just a terrible tale of the last century.
Now some of the legends are scientifically explained still possible; other examples of such innate ugliness. In the late 70s and early 80s, the attention of many doctors was riveted to Chang Tzu Ping – this Chinese also was born two-faced. His second face consisted of a mouth, several teeth, a piece of scalp, a badly deformed tongue, and outline of other features.
Of course, the face does not show any signs of independent thinking. showed – even his lips moved only and simultaneously with Pina’s ‘main’ lips. It is believed that American doctors managed remove Chang’s second face; however, really compelling there is not so much evidence of this.
Chang Tzu Ping
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