| An account of Mordake's story was detailed in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: One of the weirdest, as well as the most melancholy stories of human deformity, is that of Edward Mordake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England | An explanation for the birth defect may have been a form of a parasitic twin head with an undeveloped body , a form of bifurcated craniofacial duplication , or an extreme form of an unequal conjoined twin |
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| Earliest reference [ ] The first known description of Mordake is found in an 1895 article in authored by fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth | Three episodes in the series , "", "", and "", feature the character Edward Mordrake, played by |
The article describes a number of cases of what Hildreth refers to as "human freaks", including a woman who had the tail of a fish, a man with the body of a spider, a man who was half-crab, and Edward Mordake.
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| Hildreth claimed to have found these cases described in old reports of the "Royal Scientific Society" | Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, to , rather than simply listing appearances |
Avner Falk, Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, Jul 2010, p.
| Retrieved March 2, 2018 — via | The encyclopedia described the basic morphology of Mordake's condition, but it provided no medical diagnosis for the rare deformity |
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| Writing Letters for the Blind | According to legend, the face could whisper, grab objects, laugh or cry |
The eyes would follow the movements of the spectator, and the lips "would gibber without ceasing.