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Edward Mordake
Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled Edward Mordrake) is a fictional character created by science fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth in 1895.〔http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/edward_mordake〕 Hildreth claimed that Mordake, heir to an English peerage, had an extra face on the back of his head. The duplicate face could neither eat nor speak out loud but was seen to "smile and sneer while Mordake was weeping." Mordake reportedly begged doctors to have his "Demon face" removed, claiming that it whispered to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide when he was 23 years old.〔 The description of Mordake's condition is somewhat similar to that of Chang Tzu Ping, a 20th-century Chinese man who had his second face surgically removed.〔(TV clip on alleged surgical removal of Chang Tzu Ping's second face )〕 He died because of the second head.
==Earliest reference==
The first known description of Mordake is found in an 1895 ''Boston Post'' article authored by fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth. The article describes a number of cases of what Hildreth refers to as "human freaks," including a woman who had the tail of fish, a man with the body of a spider, a man who was half-crab, and Edward Mordake. Hildreth claimed to have found these cases described in old reports of the "Royal Scientific Society." It is unclear whether a society actually existed with this name. Hildreth’s article, which also contained other fictional creatures such as the ‘Fishwomen of Lincoln’ and the ‘Half-human half-crab’ was not factual and was probably published by the newspaper as fact simply to increase reader interest.〔
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