Siblings can really be annoying, especially if it’s your own twin. But can there be anything worse than a living copy of yourself? Believe me, there’s much worse out there.
Poor “Edward Mordrake” was born with two faces and no, I am not talking about the gift of seeing the future. On the back of his head grew a second face including eyes, nose and mouth. The second face couldn’t eat or speak it was just there. It occasionally let out a laugh or broke out in tears from time to time. Poor Edward. Just imagine a life with a little “demonic face” on the back of your head.
It gets worse: Edward was born around the 1800s, which basically meant that no doctor would dare to even look at the little demon let alone perform surgery on him. It drove him mad, he claimed that during the night, whenever he tried to sleep, the little face would whisper horrible things to him, trying to get him do unspeakable things… poor, poor Edward. The consequence of a fate like this was that Edward took his own life at the young age of 23.
An illness like this, or more like a mutation like this is called Diprosopus but is that really a thing? There are no recordings of poor little Edward. There are only photographs of wax figures that were created after his image. His story was documented in a couple of “medical documents” but there are no confirmed data of his fate. Nevertheless, cases of parasitic twins, innate siblings and additional limbs are known to mankind. The most infamous one has to be the case of the Chinese boy “Chang Tzu Ping”, who experienced a lot of hustle from the media during the 70s and 80s. He had a second, not completed face on his cheek. It was originally the face of his twin but it got absorbed in the womb. Not a pretty image.
“Double-headed births” are also known from the animal world. Animals with two faces were a thing even before Chernobyl but these kinds of mutations are still rare in the midst of humans. That is precisely why the case Edward Mordake is known like nothing else in the circles of physicians. Songs and stories were written about him, which made him truly immortal.
Copyright and Source: http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/from-the-archives-edward-mordake-poor-edward/ und http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprosopus
