Sometimes we may need private space, right? Imagine if you were born with two faces, that is one at the front and the other at the back of your head. If a person is a boy, then at the back of your head is a girl face and vice versa. But that face can’t speak, hear and see. It also gives you a hell lot of negative thoughts. So are you able to survive this? But modern-day scientists says this is not possible at all.
Edward Mordake, an apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was born in the 19th century as the heir to the English peerage with a girl’s face at the back of his head. His parents were very protective and gave him the best of his life. He was a profound scholar and a musician. He was handsome who is similar to Antonius and was very generous towards people.
The back of his head was another face of a beautiful girl “lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil”. This face had eyes but couldn’t see had nose but couldn’t smell and had a mouth but couldn’t speak and drooling comes from it. When Edward is happy, the backside face is sad and when he is sad, that face will smile and sneer at him. This face’s strength relies on his negative thoughts.
Following the death of his parents at the age of 20, his life had turned into a hell. The backside face started giving him negative thoughts and did not allow him to sleep at all. He said that these thoughts were so devilish that they couldn’t be thought by a person in hell. He went to the best doctors in England to remove this devil face. The doctors knew that it was a rare case and that there was no medical diagnosis for his case. They also said that even if they remove that face there was very little chance for his survival and told him to deal with it. So Edward isolated from everyone and started a life in his room. Finally, he committed suicide at the age of 23 by consuming poison.
As per his wishes, the servants separated his devil face from his body and buried him in a wasteland without a stone or legend to mark his grave.
Mordake’s case was included in the Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. His case was due to craniopagus parasiticus (a parasitic twin head with an undeveloped body), a form of diprosopus (bifurcated craniofacial duplication), or an extreme form of parasitic twins (an unequal conjoined twin).
In modern times almost similar to Mordake’s case, in India, a baby named Lali Singh was born in Delhi with diprosopus case and died after 2 months of her birth.
So after reading this, having one face is good, right?
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